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How much on average do security cleared linguists make a year?
Asked by Band
I would like to know on average how much linguists make, specifically Chinese. Also, so I understand, do linguist get a security clearance usually and then work for different companies who pay them higher for this kind of clearance? How many different kinds of clearance are there?
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Best Answer:
Recently there was a position for a chinese translator with top secrete clearance for 45-60k with the air force
in 2006 there was a supervisory training specialist mandarin in the state department for about 75773 - 98500 also req top secret clearance
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Chinese is one of the lowest paid fields. Linguists can expect to make approximately $80-110k per year.
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