Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is the bureau of the Treasury Department that charters, regulates and supervises national banks and federal savings associations. It is funded by assessments on the institutions it supervises rather than by appropriations, and it runs its own pay system: announcements carry NB pay bands rather than GS grades, and the band usually appears in the job title.

Recent listings have included national bank examiners and bank examiners with emphases in retail credit, asset management and compliance, large-bank field examiners, supervisory national bank examiners and examiners-in-charge, senior advisors to the senior deputy comptroller, a chief risk officer, paralegal specialists, a human resources specialist, and a supervisory attorney advisor in bank advisory work.

Applying tip: don’t try to map NB bands onto the GS tables; the salary range in the announcement is the figure that counts, and our GS pay scale guide is only useful for comparing an OCC offer with the rest of the federal market. Examiner announcements distinguish between entry into the examiner track and lateral moves for experienced examiners, so read the qualifications paragraph closely before deciding which to apply for.