Border Patrol Agents could lose thousands in salary

CBP proposal may spur exodus

By Jerry Seper
The Washington Times
8:36 p.m., Sunday, July 24, 2011

Officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have proposed a new salary plan for Border Patrol agents that could cost them an average of $7,000 a year in lost pay and spark what some say would be an exodus of veteran agents to higher-paying agencies.

The still-pending proposal by CBP to convert Border Patrol agents from a pay program known as “Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime (AUO)â€