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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for your advice.  DH is US Citizen and was born here, but he has no security clearance, he worked in the private sector all his life.  But unless he gets security clearance it would be a pay cut for him, how long does this take?  Do you get it while you already have a job and then you must jump ship to get higher salary with already obtained security clearance, or does your salary adjust once you obtain it? [/quote]

Depends on the job - some will require that you already hold a certain level of clearance.
For lower-level clearances (not nec lower-level jobs, just clearance) many times they will hire you provisionally, with the understanding that your clearance really needs to go through.  If it doesn't, they reserve the right to terminate.  You can't get a clearance without need, ie a job requiring it, so you can't really get it in advance.
This happened to me.  I was hired with the provision above and they granted me a temp clearance until the "real" one came though 6 mos later.[/quote]

Did they hire you with the higher salary commensurate with the fact that you will have clearance?  DC is just such an expensive area, that I am having a hard time understanding why there would be such a pay cut to come work here.  We are in NJ and sounds like our lives in DC metro will be tougher, prices are crazy for housing, but salaries are lower?[/quote]

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