US Customs and Border Protection Employee Reviews about "good pay"
Updated Oct 21, 2021
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "Incompetent management and disgruntled employees can lead to an environment where everyone is looking out for themselves" (in 35 reviews)
- "Senior leadership is not consistently on the same page as CBP faces a multitude of security and monetary challenges over the prior few years." (in 5 reviews)
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Reviews about "good pay"
Return to all Reviews- Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Good pay for a government job.
Cons
Leadership is poor. Candidates for management selects bullies and poorly trained individuals.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Very reasonable pay for the amount of work involved.
Cons
If you work at an airport, you will most likely be opening people's luggage all day
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Pay is good. Opportunities for upward movement.
Cons
Involuntary drafts. Weird shifts. Social cliques.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Pay is pretty decent and good
Cons
Work schedule could be better
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Pay started good and lateral movement is possible.
Cons
Management sucks and structure is too militarized.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Great pay once you've been in at least 3 years. Good opportunity to get overtime if you like working a lot. Benefits (health insur., life insur., 401K, etc.) are good.
Cons
The job can be repetitious at times as you will need seniority to get better assignments (which can take years). The agency is top heavy with management, and some of these managers know very little about the job. Favoritism is rampant and many officers are promoted based on who they know, not how much you know. There is little to no warning on forced overtime and you will likely have to stay for another shift (16 hour day total). The schedule can also disrupt your family life as some supervisors will not give you time off.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Get decent pay and meet a FEW honorable people
Cons
To much favortism. Standards for hiring have gone way down. Professional Behavior is only in theory. Many new hires are not there to work but for socializing and Management will do nothing about it
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Work-life balance is great Provides training Officers have good OT and pay opportunities
Cons
Bureaucracy was stifling. It feels like you have to write a memo to get approval to write the real memo. New approaches to problems, not welcome. Questioning the status quo, not welcome. Professional staff salaries are not that great Slow promotion track
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Provides good pay compared to private sector and decent schedules
Cons
Incompetent management and disgruntled employees can lead to an environment where everyone is looking out for themselves
- Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Extremely great pay. It's tough the first two or three years, but automatic pay raises get you great money very quickly. CBP has great training. There are many opportunities to advance, or to put in for other positions and/or agencies. CBP is definitely a place to have a career. Great benefits, retirement, etc.
Cons
Not for the faint of heart. You wear a gun and train for deadly force for a reason. This can be a very hazardous job. Also, you have to "give up" your life. Overtime is mandatory, and most times you do not know you are doing mandatory overtime until 1 or 2 hours before your shift is over. Many, many days of 16 hours. By the time you get home and manage to fall asleep, the alarm goes off. This can happen once or twice a week, or even up to 4 times per week. No time for family. If you are single, it is great. If not, well it is NOT great.
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