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TSA pay and shift schedule at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
What a Transportation Security Officer is paid at MSY, 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 MSY publishes, and what it looks like in the app.
TSA's own airport fact sheet states that the airport "maintains a 24 Hours a day, seven days per week flight schedule", that "MSY is currently assessing candidates for part-time positions" of "five (5) days of five (5) hours per day", and that "current part-time shifts could be morning, afternoon, or evening shifts". Screening operations sit inside the terminal.
Sunday to Saturday, twice — the same order the calendar runs in.
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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, and at MSY it is hiring part time only. 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, MSY — https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/msy.pdf. Checked 2026-09-03.
Starting pay at this airportA Transportation Security Officer at MSY starts at $45,649 a year, $21.87 an hour, on the SV-D band. That figure already includes this airport’s locality pay of 17.06%. The top of the advertised range, $56,282, is a ceiling and is not what a new screener is hired at.USAJOBS — Transportation Security Officer, MSY — "The salary range for New Orleans, LA (MSY - Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport) is $45,649 to $56,282 or $21.87 to $26.97 per hour and includes locality pay of 17.06%."
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- Starts at
- $45,649
- Hourly
- $21.87
- Pay band
- SV-D
- Locality
- 17.06%
- Full time
- Not stated
- Part time
- five workdays of five hours
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 $45,649 before or after locality pay?
After. TSA states the range for MSY as $45,649 to $56,282 and says in the same sentence that it includes locality pay of 17.06%. The same band at an airport in a cheaper locality pays less.
What does TSA publish about the schedule at MSY?
TSA states the number of workdays and not which days are off, and at MSY it is hiring part time only. 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 MSY, and TSA’s own airport fact sheet for MSY, at https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/msy.pdf. Pay checked 2026-09-03; Tours checked 2026-09-03.
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