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TSA pay and shift schedule at Tampa International Airport
What a Transportation Security Officer is paid at TPA, 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 TPA publishes, and what it looks like in the app.
TSA's own airport fact sheet states that the airport "maintains a seven days per week flight schedule", that "TPA is currently assessing candidates for full-time and part-time positions", and that "PT = 20 hours per week tour of duty. Five (5) days of four (4) hours per day". The fact sheet names full-time hiring but does not print the full-time tour.
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, TPA — https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/tpa.pdf. Checked 2026-09-03.
Starting pay at this airportA Transportation Security Officer at TPA starts at $40,736 a year, $19.52 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, $56,844, is a ceiling and is not what a new screener is hired at.USAJOBS — Transportation Security Officer, TPA — "The salary range for Tampa, FL (TPA - Tampa International Airport) is $40,736 to $56,844 or $19.52 to $27.24 per hour and includes locality pay of 17.06%."
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- Starts at
- $40,736
- Hourly
- $19.52
- Pay band
- SV-D
- Locality
- 17.06%
- Full time
- Not stated
- 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 $40,736 before or after locality pay?
After. TSA states the range for TPA as $40,736 to $56,844 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 TPA?
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 TPA, and TSA’s own airport fact sheet for TPA, at https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/tpa.pdf. Pay checked 2026-09-03; Tours checked 2026-09-03.
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