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TSA pay and shift schedule at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field)
What a Transportation Security Officer is paid at ASE, and the shifts TSA publishes for this airport — from the agency’s own vacancy announcement and its own fact sheet.
TSA publishes a fact sheet for every airport it screens, and it sets out the tours worked at that one. Here is what ASE publishes, and what it looks like in the app.
TSA's own airport fact sheet states that Aspen "maintains a seven days per week flight schedule" and that "ASE is currently assessing candidates for full-time and part-time positions. Those shifts are: Full-time is 40 hours per week tour of duty, Part-time is 30 hours per week tour of duty, five (5) days of six (6) hours". TSA's own press release adds that officers are eligible for shift differential pay for early morning and evening shifts and on Sundays and federal holidays, with overtime at time and a half.
Sunday to Saturday, twice — the same order the calendar runs in.
Day shiftNight shift24-hour tourDay off
Every month, already filled in — no typing, however far ahead you look.
September 2026
The two days off in the month above are an example, and that is the point. TSA gives the tour - five days of six hours part time, forty hours full time - and not which days are off, so no cycle is drawn. You mark your own two days once and the year fills itself in.
What is inside this figure. LOOK AT WHAT TSA IS PAYING TO STAFF THIS ONE. The locality is 17.06% - the LOWEST rate in the section, the same as Tampa and Knoxville - and yet Aspen starts $16,000 above Tampa. The difference is a RETENTION INCENTIVE OF 25% OF ADJUSTED PAY on top, plus a SIGN-ON BONUS OF UP TO $20,000, the largest in this data, paid in two instalments over the first twelve months. TSA states that continuation of the incentive is contingent on annual approval and funding, so a quarter of this figure is not guaranteed. It is a ski-resort county where the cost of living has nothing to do with the federal locality table, and the incentives are the agency's answer to that.
TSA airport fact sheet, ASE — https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/ase.pdf. Checked 2026-09-03.
Starting pay at this airportA Transportation Security Officer at ASE starts at $57,061 a year, $27.34 an hour, on the SV-D band. That figure already includes this airport’s locality pay of 17.06%. The top of the advertised range, $70,353, is a ceiling and is not what a new screener is hired at.USAJOBS — Transportation Security Officer, ASE — "The salary range for Aspen, CO (ASE - Aspen Pitkin County Sardy Field) is $57,061 to $70,353 or $27.34 to $33.71 per hour and includes locality pay of 17.06%, and a retention incentive of 25% of adjusted pay that is unique to this duty location."
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- Starts at
- $57,061
- Hourly
- $27.34
- Pay band
- SV-D
- Locality
- 17.06%
- Full time
- 40 hours a week
- Part time
- 30 hours a week
Screening rosters are set by the airport, adjusted after they are issued, and the days off are bid. Why that is, in TSA’s own words.
Questions
Is $57,061 before or after locality pay?
After. TSA states the range for ASE as $57,061 to $70,353 and says in the same sentence that it includes locality pay of 17.06%. The same band at an airport in a cheaper locality pays less.
What does TSA publish about the schedule at ASE?
TSA gives the tour - five days of six hours part time, forty hours full time - and not which days are off, so no cycle is drawn.
SourceTSA’s own vacancy announcement for ASE, and TSA’s own airport fact sheet for ASE, at https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/ase.pdf. Pay checked 2026-09-03; Tours checked 2026-09-03.
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