It is very rewarding to start one’s career in a bank as a scale 1 (officer cadre), as one has a career path that can lead to become a CMD of any bank, as you are aware, many of the present CMDs with various public sector banks, have started their career as an agriculture field officer. As an IBPS SO you will get a handsome salary. Other than the salary, there are many other allowances given by the bank like house rent allowance, petrol allowance, newspaper allowance, cleaning allowance, entertainment allowance, medical allowance etc. and many other things like LFCs, foreign tours.