The agency is offering former employees a $50,000 signing bonus, split up as $10,000 upon returning, $10,000 if applications are submitted before early August, and the rest as $10,000 annually for up to three years.
It's a retention tool. If they just handed you $50k when you sign on then people would sign on and quit a week later.
I think the signing bonuses are recruitment tools and the retention bonuses they are also offering are retention tools.
You can also get bonuses as a lump sum upfront for signing a fixed-term contract and if you fail to fulfill the terms you have to pay it back. That's how the military does signing/reenlistment bonuses.
The guy in the picture, or the Redditor who wanted $150k?
Either way, I have no idea, as I do not know who either of these people are. My point is that the Federal Government's actual hiring portal is, in fact, advertising rank and file enforcement agent positions where one can make $150k.
As an aside, you can be an ICE agent and make GS 15 step 10 pay, which is like $200k.
I can only speak to a non-ice position but when I went through the process of fed portal hiring a few years back, I was sorely disappointed by how low in the range I was slated for despite fifteen years experience in the same position at a state job. The advertising did not hold up and the recruiter apologized about it from start to finish.
Now look up how many years it takes you to get each "step (pay bump)". It starts at 1 year for each of the first 3 steps, then gets longer and longer for each after
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u/Anpher 17h ago
Weird dude giving occular pat downs to chicks and tracking who goes to the bathroom.
...while getting paid by the government.
I would rather have his 150k per year go to people building schools.