Occupation / job
Transportation Security Screeners
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Transportation Security Screeners pays $66,770 at the midpoint, 33% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
Employment stands at 50,290. Transportation Security Screeners is common enough to be recruited for continuously and specific enough that the experience travels — the combination that makes changing employer a working pay rise.
These roles suit people who can be reliably present and observant for a whole shift, in work where nothing happening is the intended outcome.
No verified preparation time is on file for Transportation Security Screeners. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $57,050 and $72,820, $1,314 a month apart at a ratio of 1.3x. Narrow enough that what you can expect is close to what everyone else gets.
The bottom quarter of Transportation Security Screeners earns $57,050 or more — $7,030 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.
Avoid it if rotating shifts damage you. The sleep disruption outlasts the career for a meaningful share of people who do this.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 50,290 figure counts people already working as Transportation Security Screeners, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A 1.3x spread means the top quarter of Transportation Security Screeners is not doing a different job from the bottom quarter, just a slightly better-paid version of the same one. Between $57,050 and $72,820 is the whole of the negotiation.
Put in money rather than ratios: $57,050 at the 25th percentile, $66,770 at the midpoint, $72,820 at the 75th. $15,770 separates the quarter of Transportation Security Screeners at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $72,820, the 75th percentile, is worth $6,050 a year more than the $66,770 midpoint and $15,770 more than the $57,050 a quarter of Transportation Security Screeners settle for.
The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $9,720 above the $57,050 bottom quarter but only $6,050 below the $72,820 top quarter. Most of the distance in Transportation Security Screeners is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $32.10 at the midpoint for Transportation Security Screeners, $27.42 at the 25th percentile and $35.00 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $66,770 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Transportation Security Screeners, the hourly figure is $66,770 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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