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Spies: a job in the British service of intelligence, the birthplace of today’s espionage agencies, can be exciting but also stressful and challenging.

We’ve all seen the adventures of the fictional secret agent 007. The cars driven by James Bond, his flawless suits, and his hi-tech toys are not exactly defining when it comes to real life spies.

The cars driven by James Bond, his flawless suits, and the hi-tech toys are not exactly defining real life spies.

Besides the fact it’s dangerous and life threatening, this job is not even financially satisfactory.

According to Bloomberg, the salary of an average spy varies from 30.490 pounds per year.

After some years of work, many retired agents transfer to the Majesty’s security department.

When they become tired of hunting terrorists and psychopaths, these heroes chose the safe environment provided by the Queen.

More than 12.000 people work in MI5, MI6 and headhunters say most of them leave after ten years.

Former special agents, who enter in the private department can earn some good money.

Investigating former employees, collaborators or actual workers for corporations became quite an industry

If they chose to do this, they could easily earn $1.200 per hour.

According to Gartner, if we speak globally, spies, security experts have incomes of $19, 4 billion.

Secret agents are in great demand and they are paid much better by other employees than MI5 or MI6.

Chris Meager is an expert who deals with retired secret agents and, according to him, a former spy is now earning $20.000 in a private company.

For others, money are not that important and they just want a ‘quiet life’