EFCC Ranks & Salary Structure (2024)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has various job positions and rank of their staffs. If you’re inquisitive to know all about the current ranks and salary structure of the EFCC, this regulatory agency in Nigeria, we’ll provide it and also the organisation of the commission all in this write-up.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is a security law enforcement agency in Nigeria that monitors, manage and arrest all economic crimes relating to money issues. The commission employs staff into various department of the agency to work in achieving the body’s aim.

Being a security outfit, there may be little publicity of the salary structure that they pay their staff, but we have researched from reliable sources to come up with this.

Let’s know the role of EFCC as a law enforcement agency, before going into the subject matter proper.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE EFCC

As a law implementation agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission researches and arrest public offenders on issues of monetary violations, illegal tax, money laundering, and other money related crimes in the country.

In a bid to harness the problems of money extortions in Nigeria, the Federal Government set up the EFCC in 2003 as an agency to curtail these menace affecting the country.  EFCC has its administrative center office located in Abuja and regional branches all over the country. The commission is headed by a chairman. Just recently, the EFCC directors were appointed by the President.

We previously covered more about the list of EFCC chairmen till date from its inception.

PROMINENT PERSONS ARRESTED BY THE EFCC

The primary aim of the agency remains to arrest issues of money laundering, and they have since been successful in responding to it. Below are some prominent Nigerians who have been arrested by the EFCC:

1.  Olisa Metuh
2.  Lawal Jafaru Isa
3.  Emeka Mba
4.  Jide Omokore
5.  Tom Ikimi
7.  Ricky Tarfa
8.  Bala Ngilari
9.  Patrick Akpobolokemi
10.  Sambo Dasuki
11.  Musiliu Obanikoro
12.  Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko
13.  Alex Badeh
14.  Femi Fani-Kayode
15.  Raymond Dokpesi
16.  Joshua Dariye
17.  Jolly Nyame

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION RANKS

The EFCC ranks for its staff are different from other regulatory bodies, but the three major ranks are:

• Detective Superintendent
• Detective Inspectorate and
• Detective Assistant Cadres of the Cadets.

DIVISIONS

There are also divisions in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission where their staffs are ranked. These divisions are six and they include:

• The Administrative Division
• Capacity Development Division
• The Research and Publication Division
• The Networking and Collaboration Division
• Certificate Courses Division
• Cadets Division

The staff and workers of the commission are ranked into these division.

EFCC SALARY STRUCTURE CURRENTLY (2024)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission pay a considerate salary to it staff with respect to their ranks in the commission. As a security agency, the pay is relatively good. Lets look at how much the EFCC pays its staff.

An entry level staff with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission earns about ₦158,000 as salary, while the EFCC pays a graduate assistant a salary of ₦201,075 as normal pay rate on a monthly basis. A deputy detective which is of a higher rank at the commission receives about ₦245,000 as monthly salary.

The offices in the agency incorporate Graduate Assistant and Deputy Detective Superintendent also.

EFCC CADET SALARY FOR JUNIOR TRAINEE

At the EFCC, a cadet is usually an officer trainee or candidate. Such people are trained specially to become staff of the commission at the cadet division. The EFCC cadet salary for junior trainee ranges from ₦70,000 to ₦100,000.

EFCC SALARY STRUCTURE FOR ENTRY LEVEL STAFF

A Graduate Assistant at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission receives a pay of ₦158,000 as salary at entry level. This amount will run from 0 – 2 years of service, and may be augmented after.

MID-LEVEL SALARY FOR GRADUATE ASSISTANT

A graduate employee of the Commission, after finishing 2 years first experience in his/her job position with the body, is subjected to a mid-level salary increase running from around 3 – 9 years experience with the organisation.

Though the pay for these category of staff is more voluminous than the entry level, but however, we truly not know for the time being, the exact salary for Graduate Assistant at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). But we will sift through for more data as respects to the salary structure for these employees.

SENIOR LEVEL SALARY FOR GRADUATE ASSISTANT

Moving from the mid-level is a more supreme rank of staff, which is the senior level graduate assistant. The senior-level Graduate Assistant of the commission are graduate employees with 10 years of stay with the agency.

The normal salary paid for these Graduate Assistant at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is presently unavailable. But that not withstanding, we will continue to source for more information about them and update their salary structures.

AGENT DETECTIVE SUPERINTENDENT SALARY STRUCTURE

Another staff rank at the EFCC is the Agent Detective Superintendent. The monthly net salary for a Deputy Detective is ₦245,000. These personnel are paid a higher salary sue to the fact that they have more than 10 years of experience with the Commission.

ENTRY LEVEL SALARY FOR DEPUTY DETECTIVE

Passage level for Deputy Detective is the range of 0-2 years from entering from being an Agent Deputy Detective.

The salary structure for these security personnel are more advanced than the previous, due to the differing years of being in the job. Nonetheless, the exact salary structure for Passage level Deputy Detective Assistant in EFCC is not available for the time being. We will keep on sifting through for more data as respects to this.

MID-LEVEL SALARY FOR DEPUTY DETECTIVE

A Deputy Detective in EFCC on a mid-level is paid about ₦245,000 by the Commission on  a monthly basis. These category of employees are those that advanced from the passage level, and also have 3 – 9 years experience as a Deputy detective.

EFCC SENIOR-LEVEL SALARY STRUCTURES FOR DEPUTY DETECTIVE

The Senior-Level Deputy Detective is an higher rank to Mid-level Deputy Detective in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Sadly, as a security agency, due to the lack of information to examine the amount they pay Senior-level Deputy Detective, we could not authenticate their salary structures.  Nevertheless, we will try to sift through for more information as respects to thier salary structure.

CONCLUSION

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is a security law-enforcement agency that has staff in different positions. We provided in this article the ranks and salary structure of EFCC. Their attractive pay out to their employees is one of the reason why this agency is preferred.

Nonetheless, as a critical security outfit, some of their confidential staff salaries detail for few offices are unavailable for the time being. But we will constantly sought for this information and update here.