The Transportation Security Administration is set to receive a big influx of new funding as part of President Biden’s fiscal 2023 budget request in order to finally begin paying its employees equitably when compared with most other federal workers, and not all of that money is in the form of new spending.
Since the agency’s inception following the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, TSA has had wide latitude to develop its own workforce policies. As a result, TSA screeners have seen much lower pay than their counterparts elsewhere in government, as well as a lack of union and due process protections, with abridged collective bargaining rights only being granted in 2011. The agency has seen consistently higher turnover and lower morale than most other federal agencies.
