TSA Article
 

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."

And pilots are what? We aren't responsible? What about us thining about paying for our car or food? What a load!!!!

$25000 a year(starting pay) for a job that requires no special education at all is very good. I didn't even make that my first year in the airlines. If they want more money then there needs to be higher requirements for hiring(like maybe a degree in criminal justice or something else related). While I have met some pretty decent people that work at TSA I think we have all seen the other trash they hire. They will take just about anyone, education is def not a factor. I have no problem paying people more money....they just need to earn it.

I was talking to a TSA person last week in my local airport. I had arrived on a flight and had to wait for someone else to arrive on a different flight an hour and a half later. She saw my CREW tag and was saying how she wishes she was a pilot because pilots are paid "very well" and "get to travel to lots of cool places". I told her she she made more than a starting airline pilot and she said "No, we aren't!" She said the starting pay is a probationary period, then goes to around $37K. I explained that first year FO pay was around $18K at a regional, and after 2 1/2 years I was making high 30's to low 40's. I also told her that I have been furloughed for a year now, so I was making around $18K again (on UI), but that will run out soon. She was amazed and questioned how airlines could pay so little, and why anyone would go through all the trouble to be a pilot with such a crappy pay scale and crappy QOL (after explaining daily life as a regional pilot. Got me thinking...I don't really know why we do it :) I could sit on a stool and watch bags go by on a screen and not worry about check rides, recurrent, medical, etc...and still make as much as I did on third year pay!

I'm sorry, but when I am walking out of the airport in Dallas at the end of a flight around 10:30 at night and the TSA guy is sitting in a chair with his head in his hand, staring at the ground and then he tells me that he is just too tired, that doesn't warrant a pay raise. There is more sitting around doing nothing on that job than there is as a pilot. Give me a break!

what should a payscale for incompetence look like?

Give those guys a break. They are TSA agents. Do you have any idea how bad their life is? I try to be nice to all of them, even to those that still don't know that there are other airlines besides United, American, Delta, CAL, Airways, Southwest and Jetblue. Yes I woke up today and decided to go to the airport with a monkey uniform with fake airline id just so that I can get into the terminal. I wonder what TSA training is like.

See this thread:

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ma...tsa-folks.html

Please do not start multiple threads on the same topic. Thread closed.