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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 and the bottom tenth start near $55,390. 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 Intelligence agencies do not publish their own salary medians.