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TSA pay and shift schedule at Fairbanks International Airport
What a Transportation Security Officer is paid at FAI, 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 FAI publishes, and what it looks like in the app.
TSA's own airport fact sheet states that the airport "maintains a 24 hour per day, 7 days per week flight schedule", that "FAI is currently assessing candidates for full- and part-time positions" at "Full-time: 40 hrs. per week" and "Part-time: 20 hrs. per week", and that "shifts consist of four (4) or five (5) workdays with six (6), eight (8) or ten" hour days.
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 states four or five workdays at six, eight or ten hours and does not state which days are off, so more than one week fits what is published and no cycle is drawn. You mark your own two days once and the year fills itself in.
What is inside this figure. THE RANGE IS NOT PURE BASE PAY AND TSA SAYS SO IN THE SAME SENTENCE: it carries locality of 32.36%, an Alaska COLA of 1.49%, AND a retention incentive of 5% of adjusted pay that is unique to this airport. The retention part is reviewed and funded annually, so this figure is the least durable in the section. It is published as TSA publishes it, with the composition stated rather than quietly folded in.
TSA airport fact sheet, FAI — https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/fai.pdf. Checked 2026-09-03.
Starting pay at this airportA Transportation Security Officer at FAI starts at $55,515 a year, $26.6 an hour, on the SV-D band. That figure already includes this airport’s locality pay of 32.36%. The top of the advertised range, $68,494, is a ceiling and is not what a new screener is hired at.USAJOBS — Transportation Security Officer, FAI — "The salary range for Fairbanks, AK (FAI - Fairbanks International Airport) is $55,515 to $68,494 or $26.6 to $32.82 per hour and includes locality pay of 32.36% and COLA pay of 1.49%, and a retention incentive of 5% of adjusted pay that is unique to this duty location."
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- Starts at
- $55,515
- Hourly
- $26.6
- Pay band
- SV-D
- Locality
- 32.36%
- 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 $55,515 before or after locality pay?
After. TSA states the range for FAI as $55,515 to $68,494 and says in the same sentence that it includes locality pay of 32.36%. The same band at an airport in a cheaper locality pays less.
What does TSA publish about the schedule at FAI?
TSA states four or five workdays at six, eight or ten hours and does not state which days are off, so more than one week fits what is published and no cycle is drawn.
SourceTSA’s own vacancy announcement for FAI, and TSA’s own airport fact sheet for FAI, at https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/fai.pdf. Pay checked 2026-09-03; Tours checked 2026-09-03.
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