TSA's PTO and Vacation policy typically gives 10-15 days off a year with 67% of employees expected to be work free while out of office. Paid Time Off is TSA's 3rd most important benefit besides Healthcare when ranked by employees, with 33% of employees saying it is the most important benefit.
Even though TSA officers are federal employees, they don't have the same rights as other employees at other agencies, thanks to the law creating TSA that gave the agency wide discretion on what it wants to do with employees.
Tens of thousands of TSA workers get largest pay raise in decades. Workers for the Transportation Security Administration, including the 50,000 uniformed officers who screen travelers and bags at U.S. airports, will get up to a 31% pay increase, among the largest in agency history.
Thanks to the continued hard work of AFGE TSA Council 100, the historic raise and expanded rights became a reality. On Thursday, Dec. 29, President Biden signed into law the 2023 omnibus government funding bill that funds the pay hike for TSOs, giving the severely underpaid workforce an average 30% raise.
The increases were funded under the homeland security appropriations bill passed by Congress late last year. It included funding for the pay raises starting in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. Late last week and into the weekend, TSA employees received their first paychecks under the new system.
Almost all airports have two shifts for their employees: AM and PM. The AM shift starts approximately two hours before the first flight of the day, usually around 3am. The PM shift takes over around noon.