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TSA pay and shift schedule at Denver International Airport
What a Transportation Security Officer is paid at DEN, 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 DEN publishes, and what it looks like in the app.
TSA's own airport fact sheet states that Denver "maintains a 24 hour per day, 7 days per week flight schedule", that "DEN is currently assessing candidates for full-time and part-time positions", and that those are "full-time 40 hours per week" and "part-time 30 hours per week".
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. Denver's part time is THIRTY hours - half again as much as the twenty most airports advertise, and the same as Aspen's. TSA gives the weekly total and not how it is split, so neither the number of workdays nor the days off are fixed by what is published. You mark your own two days once and the year fills itself in.
What is inside this figure. The 15% retention incentive is inside this figure and TSA says so: it is "unique to this duty location" and its continuation depends on annual approval and funding. So the top of the range is not a promise the way a locality percentage is. The indexed view of this announcement does not carry its opening and closing dates; the announcement number is recorded above so the figure can be re-dated when it is next checked.
TSA airport fact sheet, DEN — https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/den.pdf. Checked 2026-09-03.
Starting pay at this airportA Transportation Security Officer at DEN starts at $58,533 a year, $28.05 an hour, on the SV-D band. That figure already includes this airport’s locality pay of 30.52%. The top of the advertised range, $72,167, is a ceiling and is not what a new screener is hired at.USAJOBS — Transportation Security Officer, DEN, announcement 12661602-DEN-FT-PT — "The salary range for Denver, CO (DEN - Denver International Airport) is $58,533 to $72,167 or $28.05 to $34.58 per hour and includes locality pay of 30.52%, and a retention incentive of 15% of adjusted pay that is unique to this duty location."
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- Starts at
- $58,533
- Hourly
- $28.05
- Pay band
- SV-D
- Locality
- 30.52%
- 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 $58,533 before or after locality pay?
After. TSA states the range for DEN as $58,533 to $72,167 and says in the same sentence that it includes locality pay of 30.52%. The same band at an airport in a cheaper locality pays less.
What does TSA publish about the schedule at DEN?
Denver's part time is THIRTY hours - half again as much as the twenty most airports advertise, and the same as Aspen's. TSA gives the weekly total and not how it is split, so neither the number of workdays nor the days off are fixed by what is published.
SourceTSA’s own vacancy announcement for DEN, and TSA’s own airport fact sheet for DEN, at https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/den.pdf. Pay checked 2026-09-05; Tours checked 2026-09-03.
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