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TSA pay and shift schedule at McClellan-Palomar Airport
What a Transportation Security Officer is paid at CRQ, 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 CRQ publishes, and what it looks like in the app.
TSA's own airport fact sheet is unusually short on hours here. It states that the airport "maintains a seven days per week flight schedule", that "operational hours vary based on the flight schedule", and that "McClellan-Palomar has one inside terminal for passenger screening" with screening operations inside it. IT PRINTS NO TOUR AT ALL - neither a full-time nor a part-time pattern.
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. NO TOUR IS PUBLISHED FOR THIS AIRPORT, not just no days off. The fact sheet ties the hours to the flight schedule and leaves it there, so the calendar beside this is an example of the app rather than anything TSA has stated about CRQ. You mark your own two days once and the year fills itself in.
What is inside this figure. The locality here, 33.72%, is the highest in the section - a small county airport near San Diego is priced on San Diego's locality table, which is why a three-gate terminal pays more than Tampa International.
TSA airport fact sheet, CRQ — https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/crq.pdf. Checked 2026-09-03.
Starting pay at this airportA Transportation Security Officer at CRQ starts at $46,072 a year, $22.08 an hour, on the SV-D band. That figure already includes this airport’s locality pay of 33.72%. The top of the advertised range, $64,293, is a ceiling and is not what a new screener is hired at.USAJOBS — Transportation Security Officer, CRQ — "The salary range for Carlsbad, CA (CRQ - McClellan-Palomar Airport) is $46,072 to $64,293 or $22.08 to $30.81 per hour and includes locality pay of 33.72%."
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- Starts at
- $46,072
- Hourly
- $22.08
- Pay band
- SV-D
- Locality
- 33.72%
- Full time
- Not stated
- Part time
- Not stated
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 $46,072 before or after locality pay?
After. TSA states the range for CRQ as $46,072 to $64,293 and says in the same sentence that it includes locality pay of 33.72%. The same band at an airport in a cheaper locality pays less.
What does TSA publish about the schedule at CRQ?
NO TOUR IS PUBLISHED FOR THIS AIRPORT, not just no days off. The fact sheet ties the hours to the flight schedule and leaves it there, so the calendar beside this is an example of the app rather than anything TSA has stated about CRQ.
SourceTSA’s own vacancy announcement for CRQ, and TSA’s own airport fact sheet for CRQ, at https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/crq.pdf. Pay checked 2026-09-03; Tours checked 2026-09-03.
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