U.S. Secret Service

Special Agent - Lateral

U.S. Secret Service · Department of Homeland Security · 20 locations

Apply on USAJOBS All nationwide announcements

Pay: $76,463 – $118,204 per year
Grade: GS 12–13
Schedule: Full-time
Appointment: Permanent
Locations: 20
Series: 1811 Criminal Investigation
Posted: 1 Oct 2026
Closes: open until 31 Dec 202631 December 2026, end of the day Eastern

Who may apply Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees - Competitive service Military spouses Veterans

Also Clearance: Top Secret

Summary

The United States Secret Service is recruiting Experienced and Ready to Serve Special Agents for placement at one of over 70 locations nationwide. For more information, click here. Permanent Change of Station (PCS) will be paid by the agency. Selectees are guaranteed placement at their first Office of Choice. Meet requirements to qualify for 11-week expedited training. May require additional training if training waiver is not granted. For more information on the Secret Service, click here.

From the announcement on USAJOBS, the agency’s own words.

Applications are made on USAJOBS. This page is a listing, not an application form, and the announcement is authoritative wherever the two differ.

States named

This announcement names 20 locations. It is listed here rather than under each of them, because counting it in every town would make small towns look busy — how these figures are counted.

Method

Where every figure comes from.

The source

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s USAJOBS register, read through its Search API on 7 October 2026 at 9:06 a.m. Eastern: 11,696 open announcements held, 464 overseas ones left out. Titles, pay, grades, closing dates and places are as OPM publishes them; where a page here and the announcement differ, the announcement is right. USAJOBS data are a work of the U.S. government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. §105), read under the terms of use the API publishes at developer.usajobs.gov.

The two rules

A job expires: every announcement leaves every page here at the end of its closing day, Eastern time, whenever the register was last read. Two figures, never one: an announcement naming more than 15 towns is a nationwide notice, counted apart and filed under none of them.

Applying

Applications are made on USAJOBS and nowhere else. This desk is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, OPM or any federal agency, collects nothing from you and has no part in any hiring decision.

What you type

A search travels only as the address of the next page on labs.llc (?query=). The server keeps the day’s answer to each search under a hash of its words, never who asked, and discards it at midnight Eastern; the site’s analytics records page views, and that address is part of the view it records.

The full method · the four axes of the harvest, the 10,000 cap, the nationwide cutoff and where it came from, closing dates, and what is not here.