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FBI Agent Career Paths The FBI Academy@ Criminal Justice Careers Guide Criminal Justice Careers

All Special Agent Careers start at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA. For slightly over 18 weeks the future FBI Agents receive intensive training. During this time the potential FBI Agents live on-campus and participate in a broad range of training activities to train them to become FBI Agents. The potential FBI Agents spend their classroom time studying a wide range of FBI academic and FBI investigative subjects. In addition the potential FBI Agents must pass intensive physical fitness training including FBI Agent defensive tactics and the use of firearms. Tests will be given in all areas to monitor the FBI Agent Trainees progress.



FBI Agent Trainees

FBI Agent trainees at the FBI Academy will be given physical Fitness Test during the first, seventh, and fourteenth week of their FBI Agent training. Those trainees who fail the Physical Fitness Test during week one will be placed in a remedial program and will be subject to certain administrative restrictions. The restrictions include no overnight departures from the Academy until the FBI trainee passes the Physical Fitness Test. FBI Trainees who fail the week-one Physical Fitness Test and the week-seven Physical Fitness Test will be dismissed from New FBI Agent Training, absent extreme extenuating circumstances.

FBI Special Agent trainees are paid as GS-10, step 1 (on the Law Enforcement Officers' salary table) plus the Quantico, VA locality adjustment (17.50%) during their time at the FBI Academy. This equates to $51,043 on an annualized basis (or $1,963 per each two-week pay period). All FBI trainees must successfully complete all of the FBI training requirements in order to graduate from the FBI Academy. Upon graduation, FBI trainees are sworn in as FBI Special Agents.
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