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Pay parity for TSA employees

WASHINGTON, USA – The Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill signed Thursday by the president includes funding to bring TSA employee compensation to a level commensurate with other federal agencies.

It also supports funding to expand collective bargaining rights for our screening workforce.

After years of advocating for fair pay for TSA employees, the provision allows the agency to bring pay rates in alignment with other federal agencies, effective July 1, 2023. TSA’s frontline employees, Transportation Security Officers (TSO), have generally been paid up to 30 percent less than their federal counterparts. The bill also included funding for expanded collective bargaining rights for TSA’s non-supervisory TSOs as well as new computed tomography and credential authentication technology acquisitions that will significantly enhance our checkpoint screening capabilities.

TSOs now regularly screen more than two million passengers per day, and we expect travel volumes to continue to increase throughout 2023. The FY23 Omnibus Appropriations Bill further enables the critical national security work that TSA employees do each day to protect the nation’s transportation systems.

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