A skip tracer locates missing people for collection agencies, bail bondsmen, or private investigators. They gather information from public records and contacts to find those who intentionally or unintentionally avoid being found. Pay ranges from $12 to $20 USD per hour.
A skip tracer is someone who locates missing people. A skip tracer can work for a collection agency, bail bondsman, or private investigator. Pay varies widely, but many collection agencies pay skip tracers an hourly wage between $12 and $20 US Dollars (USD). The wanted person could be a long lost relative of someone, someone who has avoided paying money owed, or he could be wanted in a police or other matter. The term, skip tracer, is based on the idea of someone skipping town and someone else trying to track this person’s location.
A skip tracer typically begins a search by gathering all kinds of information about the missing person. The information is checked for accuracy and then analyzed. Skip tracers often contact people connected or previously connected to their subject such as past and present relatives, friends, neighbors and co-workers.
Other sources of information for a skip tracer include public records such as credit reports and court records. Marriages, divorces and bankruptcies often leave paper trails that a tracer can follow. Air travel and phone records are often helpful, and sometimes even department store membership cards can provide clues. Skip tracers found people who didn’t want to be found because these subjects made mistakes like forgetting to get rid of a frequent flyer account when booking air travel. Sometimes even the smallest clue can lead a jump tracker to locate someone.
An intentional jump is a person trying not to be found, and an unintentional jump is a person who is not trying to avoid being discovered on purpose and may not realize that someone is looking for him. A woman who changes her name through marriage or divorce may be harder to find than a man. A total identity change does not always guarantee that a person will avoid being tracked by a skip tracer because a small mistake or a trace left by her old life is enough to start a trace.
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