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Special pay for law enforcement officers, including those in ICE and U.S. Border Patrol, for working overtime or in high-demand areas.
Official DHS and ICE hiring materials and public releases describe signing bonuses as a capped, position-based recruitment incentive—commonly advertised as “up to $50,000” for law-enforcement hires—an...
Bonuses, overtime and recruitment incentives can materially raise an agent’s take‑home pay—often converting advertised GS/GL base ranges into compensation packages that approach or exceed in high‑cost...
OPM’s public pages and reporting indicate that Special Rate Table L018 was designated to cover certain DHS law-enforcement roles, including ICE criminal-investigator job series commonly coded 1811, an...
and compensation in 2025 shares the same but diverges in practice: Border Patrol entry pay and large recruitment bonuses have made starting total compensation visibly higher for many new Border Patrol...
ICE agents receive the core federal benefits available to most Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees—health, dental, vision, retirement, Thrift Savings Plan and paid leave—while also being e...