Overseas Security Contractor Salary Annual SalaryHourly Wage Top Earners $84,000 $40 75th Percentile $61,000 $29 Average $54,037 $26 25th Percentile $38,000 $18
Generally, you cannot apply for a security clearance on your own; you must be sponsored by a government agency or a company with a contract with the government. These entities must determine that your job requires access to classified information.
You can't acquire one on your own. You have to either apply directly with the federal government at USAJOBS or an agency as college intern where you can get an clearance (ie: FBI). The other route is to join a branch of the military active, guard, or reserve where the position requires a security clearance.
The average PMC salary in the US is $115,909 annually-an average of $9,659/mo. (San Jose, CA has the highest average salary total of $228,849- which is 97% greater than the US average- reflecting San Jose's very high living costs).
Section 19 – Foreign Contacts: Provide any foreign national whom you have, or have had, close and/or continuing contact with within the last seven years with whom you, or your spouse, or cohabitant are bound by affection, influence, common interest, and/or obligation.
In essence, if personnel working for a contractor require access to classified information in the performance of their duties, the contractor must have an FCL and the personnel must have personnel security clearances (PCLs).
Contact is close and continuing; 2. Foreign contact is with applicant, applicant's spouse or applicant's cohabitant; 3. The contact/relationship falls within the last seven (7) years; and 4. There must be a bond of affect, influence, common interest and/or obligation.
Individuals with a security clearance must report all personal foreign travel to their security manager prior to travel. In addition, individuals with SCI access are required to report official and personal foreign travel. Security Managers will enter all reportable information in the FC/FT tool.
What are the consequences of failing to report unofficial foreign contact? Failing to report unofficial foreign contact for contractors under the security cognizance of the DoD could result in disciplinary action, up to and including the loss of your security clearance.
For DOE purposes, the term “close contact” with a foreign national is defined as a relationship that (a) involves bonds of affection and/or personal obligation, and/or (b) where the employee and the foreign national share private time together in a public or private setting where sensitive professional and personal ...