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What the pay looks like
Median
$93,790
Bottom tenth
$55,390
Top tenth
$160,540
The national median is $93,790 a year, the bottom tenth earn $55,390 or less and the top tenth $160,540 or more, in the 2025 survey. There is no published federal wage figure for intelligence officers, so these are the numbers for Detectives and Criminal Investigators, the closest occupation the survey publishes and the one federal investigative work is counted in. Intelligence agencies do not publish their own salary medians.