Pricing Schedule
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The FY 2008 pricing schedule for Background Investigations can be viewed on the OPM Circular “Federal Investigations Notice on Billing Rates (PDF, 8 Pages).” Costs for the six most commonly ordered investigations at NIH are also listed in the table below.
Level of Investigation Required |
Standard Rate |
Priority Rate |
ANACI (National Security/Level 2 Confidential) |
$239 |
$281 |
SSBI (National Security/Level 3 & 4/Top Secret) |
$3,719 |
$4,085 |
NACIC (Public Trust/Level 5a/Low Risk) |
$124 |
None |
MBI (Public Trust/Level 5b/Moderate Risk) |
$558 |
$636 |
LBI (Public Trust/Level 5c/High Risk) |
$2,465 |
$2,857 |
BI (Public Trust/Level 6/High Risk) |
$2,961 |
$3,510 |
The pricing schedule is also listed on the Background Investigation Approval Form (Levels 2-6) (PDF, 1 Page)
