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TSA pay and shift schedule at McGhee Tyson Airport
What a Transportation Security Officer is paid at TYS, 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 TYS publishes, and what it looks like in the app.
TSA's own airport fact sheet states that McGhee Tyson "maintains a seven days per week flight schedule" beginning at 4:00 a.m., that the airport is assessing candidates for part-time positions, and that current shifts are morning and afternoon. It does not print the length of the tour.
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. TSA names the shift periods and not the tour length or the days off, so nothing here fixes a cycle and none is drawn. You mark your own two days once and the year fills itself in.
TSA airport fact sheet, TYS — https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/tys.pdf. Checked 2026-09-03.
Starting pay at this airportA Transportation Security Officer at TYS starts at $46,105 a year, $22.09 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, TYS — "The salary range for Knoxville, TN (TYS - McGhee Tyson Airport) is $46,105 to $56,844 or $22.09 to $27.24 per hour and includes locality pay of 17.06%."
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- Starts at
- $46,105
- Hourly
- $22.09
- Pay band
- SV-D
- Locality
- 17.06%
- Full time
- Not stated
- Part time
- morning and afternoon shifts
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 $46,105 before or after locality pay?
After. TSA states the range for TYS as $46,105 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 TYS?
TSA names the shift periods and not the tour length or the days off, so nothing here fixes a cycle and none is drawn.
SourceTSA’s own vacancy announcement for TYS, and TSA’s own airport fact sheet for TYS, at https://jobs.tsa.gov/AirportFAQs/tys.pdf. Pay checked 2026-09-03; Tours checked 2026-09-03.
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