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TSA pay and shift schedule at John Glenn Columbus International Airport
What a Transportation Security Officer is paid at CMH, 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 CMH publishes, and what it looks like in the app.
TSA's own airport fact sheet states that "CMH is currently assessing candidates for full-time and part-time positions", that those shifts are "Full-time: 40 hrs. per week" and "Part-time: 20 hrs. per week consisting of five (5) workdays per week with a four (4) hour shift", and - unusually - that "currently, a bid process takes place every 6 months".
Sunday to Saturday, twice — the same order the calendar runs in.
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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 states the number of workdays and not which days are off. CMH is the clearest statement in the section of WHY they are not fixed: the fact sheet says a bid process takes place every six months, so the days a screener holds are won twice a year and change with seniority. You mark your own two days once and the year fills itself in.
TSA airport fact sheet, CMH — https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/cmh.pdf. Checked 2026-09-03.
Starting pay at this airportA Transportation Security Officer at CMH starts at $46,242 a year, $22.16 an hour, on the SV-D band. That figure already includes this airport’s locality pay of 22.15%. The top of the advertised range, $59,316, is a ceiling and is not what a new screener is hired at.USAJOBS — Transportation Security Officer, CMH — "The salary range for Columbus, OH (CMH - John Glenn Columbus International Airport) is $46,242 to $59,316 or $22.16 to $28.42 per hour and includes locality pay of 22.15%."
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- Starts at
- $46,242
- Hourly
- $22.16
- Pay band
- SV-D
- Locality
- 22.15%
- Full time
- 40 hours a week
- Part time
- 20 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 $46,242 before or after locality pay?
After. TSA states the range for CMH as $46,242 to $59,316 and says in the same sentence that it includes locality pay of 22.15%. The same band at an airport in a cheaper locality pays less.
What does TSA publish about the schedule at CMH?
TSA states the number of workdays and not which days are off. CMH is the clearest statement in the section of WHY they are not fixed: the fact sheet says a bid process takes place every six months, so the days a screener holds are won twice a year and change with seniority.
SourceTSA’s own vacancy announcement for CMH, and TSA’s own airport fact sheet for CMH, at https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/cmh.pdf. Pay checked 2026-09-03; Tours checked 2026-09-03.
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