Title: Bounty Hunter Career, Salary and Training – Bail Enforcement Agent
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Bounty Hunter Career, Salary and Training – Bail Enforcement Agent
Bounty Hunter Requirements
Bail Enforcement Agent Education and Training
Bounty Hunter Salary
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Bounty Hunter Career, Salary and Training – Bail Enforcement Agent
The career of a bounty hunter is unique to the United States and legal only in the U.S. and the Philippines. Other terms for this job are bail enforcement agent, fugitive recovery agent, and bail fugitive investigator. The job description is simple – a bounty hunter captures fugitives from justice in exchange for a monetary reward (the bounty). When the court sets bail for a defendant, the defendant will often pay 10% of the bond amount while the bail bondsman guarantees the remaining 90 percent. If the defendant shows up for trial, the bondsman earns the 10 percent paid to him or her initially and he is in profit. If the defendant eludes bail by not showing up for court, it is the bail bondsman who is responsible for paying the remaining 90 percent of the bond to the court. Bounty hunters are most often hired by bail bondsmen to recover a fugitive and return him to the court. Most bounty hunters are self-employed and offer their services to bail bond companies for 5-10 percent of the bond set for the fugitive. Bounty Hunter Requirements
Some states do not have any training requirements for fugitive recovery agents and require only that a bail bondsman sanction the search for a fugitive. Other states have various training and licensing requirements.