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TSA shift schedules, airport by airport
TSA pays screeners differently at every airport, because the locality percentage is baked into the figure. It also publishes a fact sheet for each one setting out the tours worked there. Both come from the agency itself, and both are on these pages.
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- 1BOS — Boston Logan International AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airport$62,662a year to start
- 2ASE — Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field)Full time 40 hours a week · part time 30 hours a week, five days of six hours$57,061a year to start
- 3FAI — Fairbanks International AirportFull time 40 hours a week · part time 20 hours a week$55,515a year to start
- 4SBP — San Luis Obispo County Regional AirportPart time morning, afternoon or evening shifts across an 18.5-hour day$52,088a year to start
- 5MSP — Minneapolis-St. Paul International AirportFull time 40 hours a week, five workdays of eight hours · part time 25 hours a week, five workdays of five hours$50,264a year to start
- 6CMH — John Glenn Columbus International AirportFull time 40 hours a week · part time 20 hours a week, five workdays with a four-hour shift$46,242a year to start
- 7TYS — McGhee Tyson AirportPart time morning and afternoon shifts$46,105a year to start
- 8CRQ — McClellan-Palomar AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airport$46,072a year to start
- 9MSY — Louis Armstrong New Orleans International AirportPart time five workdays of five hours$45,649a year to start
- 10CLT — Charlotte Douglas International AirportFull time 40 hours a week, five days of eight hours$45,303a year to start
- 11PSC — Tri-Cities AirportPart time varied workdays$40,736a year to start
- 12TPA — Tampa International AirportPart time 20 hours a week, five workdays of four hours$40,736a year to start
- 13ATL — Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International AirportPart time 20-25 hours a weektour published,
no open vacancy - 14AUS — Austin-Bergstrom International AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airporttour published,
no open vacancy - 15BFF — Western Nebraska Regional AirportPart time 16 to 32 hours a week, up to five daystour published,
no open vacancy - 16BNA — Nashville International AirportFull time 40 hours a week · part time 20 hours a week, morning, afternoon or eveningtour published,
no open vacancy - 17BWI — Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall AirportFull time 40 hours a week · part time 20 hours a week, five days of four hours, morning, afternoon or eveningtour published,
no open vacancy - 18CYS — Cheyenne Regional AirportPart time 16 to 32 hours a week, rotatingtour published,
no open vacancy - 19DAL — Dallas Love FieldTSA publishes no tour for this airporttour published,
no open vacancy - 20DCA — Ronald Reagan Washington National AirportFull time 40 hours a week, eight hours a day over five days · part time 20 hours a week, four to five hours a day over five daystour published,
no open vacancy - 21DEN — Denver International AirportFull time 40 hours a week · part time 30 hours a weektour published,
no open vacancy - 22DFW — Dallas Fort Worth International AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airporttour published,
no open vacancy - 23EWR — Newark Liberty International AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airporttour published,
no open vacancy - 24FAT — Fresno Yosemite International AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airporttour published,
no open vacancy - 25GEG — Spokane International AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airporttour published,
no open vacancy - 26HNL — Daniel K. Inouye International AirportPart time five days of four hours, morning or afternoontour published,
no open vacancy - 27HOU — William P. Hobby AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airporttour published,
no open vacancy - 28JFK — John F. Kennedy International AirportFull time 40 hours a week, five days of eight hourstour published,
no open vacancy - 29LAF — Purdue University AirportFull time 40 hours a week, five days of 8.5 hours or four of 10.5 · part time 16 to 25 hours a week, three days of six hours or lesstour published,
no open vacancy - 30LAX — Los Angeles International AirportPart time five workdays of four hourstour published,
no open vacancy - 31MCK — McCook Ben Nelson Regional AirportPart time 16 to 32 hours a week, up to five daystour published,
no open vacancy - 32MDW — Chicago Midway AirportPart time 20 hours a week, rising to as much as 32tour published,
no open vacancy - 33MIA — Miami International AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airporttour published,
no open vacancy - 34MVY — Martha's Vineyard AirportFull time 40 hours a week, either four days of ten hours or five of eighttour published,
no open vacancy - 35OMA — Eppley AirfieldFull time 40 hours a week · part time five days of five hourstour published,
no open vacancy - 36ORD — Chicago O'Hare International AirportTSA publishes no tour for this airporttour published,
no open vacancy - 37OTH — Southwest Oregon Regional AirportPart time 20 hours a week, four days of five hourstour published,
no open vacancy - 38PAE — Seattle Paine Field International AirportPart time 25 hours a week, workdays and hours varying with the airport's needstour published,
no open vacancy - 39PDX — Portland International AirportFull time 40 hours a week · part time 20 hours a week, four to five days of four to five hourstour published,
no open vacancy - 40PHX — Phoenix Sky Harbor International AirportPart time 20 hours a week, four to five workdays of four to five hourstour published,
no open vacancy - 41PIE — St. Pete-Clearwater International AirportPart time 20 hours a week, FOUR days of five hourstour published,
no open vacancy - 42RKD — Knox County Regional AirportPart time 20 hours a week, two days of ten hourstour published,
no open vacancy - 43ROA — Roanoke Blacksburg Regional AirportPart time 20 hours a week, five days of four hourstour published,
no open vacancy - 44SEA — Seattle-Tacoma International AirportFull time 40 hours a week, five workdays of eight hours · part time 20-32 hours a week, workday hours depending on the airport's needstour published,
no open vacancy - 45TEX — Telluride Regional AirportFull time 40 hours a week · part time 30 hours a week, five days of six hourstour published,
no open vacancy
Nothing matches those filters.
Two documents, and they say different things
The airport fact sheet gives the schedule: full-time and part-time tours, the shift windows, and whether split shifts are worked there. It carries no pay at all. The vacancy announcement gives the pay, per airport, with the locality percentage stated in the same sentence. Neither is a jobs board and neither is an estimate.
What TSA tells every applicant, at every airport
The same paragraph appears on fact sheet after fact sheet, and it is the most honest description of this job’s schedule anyone has written:
“TSO work schedules are based on the operational needs of the airport and may include non-traditional shifts, weekends and holidays. Due to the nature of the job, virtually no flexibility is offered to accommodate personal commitments or schedules. TSA does allow one-way trades and shift trades under the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Specific shifts are assigned after new hires successfully complete their training and are subject to periodic adjustments to meet changing operational needs.”
Read that carefully and it tells you three things. Your schedule is set by the airport, not by you. It will be adjusted after you have it. And the one lever you do have is trading a shift with somebody else — which is only worth anything if both of you can see, quickly, which days you are each holding.
The days off are bid, and TSA says so
This is the reason a screener’s roster will not sit still, and it is the agency’s own wording rather than ours. Columbus states that “currently, a bid process takes place every 6 months”. Tri-Cities states that “bidding for shifts is completed by seniority once a year”. So the two days you have off are won, they are won against everyone else’s seniority, and they are re-won on a clock. A roster that is re-bid twice a year is a roster no fixed template can hold — which is the whole argument for keeping your own.
What TSA publishes about days off, and what it does not
Almost every fact sheet gives the number of workdays and stops. Five on and two off is not Monday to Friday: the two days are bid, they differ by airport, and they move. A handful of airports do print theirs — Mobile names three possible mid-week pairs — and where TSA names the days, the calendar on that page is the roster rather than an example.
Why this sits apart from the police pay section
Transportation Security Officers are federal employees of the Department of Homeland Security. They are not sworn law enforcement, so they are not in the police pay roster, and no figure here is mixed into it.
Your roster, a year ahead
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