Individuals usually enter this field as assistant examiners and, over the course of four to five years, progress to commissioned examiners. Commissioned examiners might be given responsibility for several small banks. As the examiner gains experience and establishes a reputation for integrity, insight, and thoroughness, he or she may be given responsibility for larger banks and larger teams of examiners. Examiners who handle larger banks also tend to earn more money.
Bank examiners with considerable experience can become specialists in a variety of areas. Examiners who work at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, for example, can specialize in asset management, bank information technology, international banking, capital markets, compliance, credit, and retail credit.
After many years, an examiner may be offered a supervisory position. Supervisors usually stay in one office and manage a large number of examiners who are working in the field.
Examiners also advance by moving to agencies that offer higher salary scales. Still others leave the profession entirely and put their skills to work as banking consultants. Because examiners study so many different banks, of varying degrees of soundness and efficiency, they can become highly successful, sought-after consultants.
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