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TSA pay and shift schedule at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
What a Transportation Security Officer is paid at MSP, 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 MSP publishes, and what it looks like in the app.
TSA's own airport fact sheet states the tours: "MSP is currently assessing candidates for full-time and part-time positions. Full-time: 40 hrs. per week of five (5) workdays of eight (8) hours per day. Part-time: 25 hrs. per week of five (5) workdays of five (5) hours per day."
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 the number of workdays and not which days are off. No cycle is drawn: five on and two off lands on fixed weekdays in a month grid, and asserting those weekdays would be putting words in the employer's mouth. You mark your own two days once and the year fills itself in.
TSA airport fact sheet, MSP — https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/msp.pdf. Checked 2026-09-03.
Starting pay at this airportA Transportation Security Officer at MSP starts at $50,264 a year, $24.08 an hour, on the SV-D band. That figure already includes this airport’s locality pay of 27.62%. The top of the advertised range, $61,972, is a ceiling and is not what a new screener is hired at.USAJOBS — Transportation Security Officer, MSP — "The salary range for Minneapolis, MN (MSP - Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport) is $50264 to $61972 or $24.08 to $29.69 per hour and includes locality pay of 27.62%."
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- Starts at
- $50,264
- Hourly
- $24.08
- Pay band
- SV-D
- Locality
- 27.62%
- Full time
- 40 hours a week
- Part time
- 25 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 $50,264 before or after locality pay?
After. TSA states the range for MSP as $50,264 to $61,972 and says in the same sentence that it includes locality pay of 27.62%. The same band at an airport in a cheaper locality pays less.
What does TSA publish about the schedule at MSP?
TSA states the number of workdays and not which days are off. No cycle is drawn: five on and two off lands on fixed weekdays in a month grid, and asserting those weekdays would be putting words in the employer's mouth.
SourceTSA’s own vacancy announcement for MSP, and TSA’s own airport fact sheet for MSP, at https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/msp.pdf. Pay checked 2026-09-03; Tours checked 2026-09-03.
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