Security clearance pay p1 - Military Transition - Military Times EDGE

Workers who hold active security clearances in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area out-earned their cleared counterparts throughout the U.S., according to the most recent salary survey by the Web site ClearanceJobs.com. Workers in Washington, D.C., and Virginia earned averages of $82,874 a year and $80,135 a year respectively. learanceJobs.com surveyed more than 5,000 security-cleared individuals registered on its site between Feb. 21, 2008, and April 26, 2009. States rounding out the top 10 are Colorado at an average of $74,000 a year, California at $73,636, Maryland at $73,471, Arizona at $68,000, Florida at $65,962, Texas at $64,207, Georgia at $61,022 and North Carolina at $58,506 — all up over the previous year. Security clearance salaries rose 7 percent in Afghanistan to $106,321 a year, nearly reaching those in Iraq at $106,839. Private-industry workers out-earned civil servants with clearances, $83,212 to $62,615.