Mr. Rowley. Yes; we recruit an agent at grade GS-7, at $5,795.
Mr. Rankin. How does that compare with the starting salary for the FBI?
Mr. Rowley. I think it is a difference of three grades. As I understand, the lowest FBI grade is GS-10.
Mr. Rankin. $10,000.
Mr. Rowley. Grade 10.
Mr. Rankin. What salary would that be?
Mr. Rowley. It might be—for example, GS-11 is $8,410. Now, it could be somewhere between $7,500 and $8,000.
Mr. Rankin. Are you able to get at that salary the quality of men that you should for this kind of work?
Mr. Rowley. Yes; we have found to date that we have been able—we have been selective. And, of course, the fact that we have only appropriations for a limited number of men.
For example, today we have well over 40 men waiting to be accepted, with completed investigations, some a year or more. Sometimes when we put in requests for a given number of men, we want to put those men on at the beginning of the fiscal year, so we undertake to recruit them and complete their investigation, so that everything—the character and the physical is up to date—and we can put them on, if we get the funds precisely at the beginning of the fiscal year.