This was posted in the major section and thought it would be better in the regional section.

TSA Officers Among Lowest Paid Of Federal Workers : NPR

"This is a very, very important job. You're dealing with people's lives every single day, and if you have an officer sitting there worrying about how they're going to pay their rent, or whether their car is going to be taken from them because they can't pay their car note, or how their children are going to eat ... then you're not going to have a happy officer there thinking about the mission," Hutchinson says. "The mission comes first."