TSA airport assessment?

Working at the Airport as a TSA guy?

• I think I want to work as a TSA security guy at the airport. I live in chicago so maybe O'Hare airport. What are the requirements for that job? Is ot rewarding? Whats the salary? Would it be fun........walking around an airport all day?? ten points for best answer!!

• Answer:

  I used to work for TSA, it was an ok job with deceit pay and pretty good benefits. I believe you start out at 12 something and hour but they adjust the rate according to where you live, so you may start out a bit higher. When I worked for them it was right after 9/11, (I was actually in the first group of agents who were hired) and at the time we used to go to the gates and screen passengers before they boarded the planes. That was what I enjoyed the most. For me it was tedious standing at the security point all day, but they do rotate positions every 20 minutes. Remember you will probably have to work weekends and holidays also. It was a lot like being in the military. We had before and after shift briefings, our uniforms had to be perfect, no gum, or mints while on the floor, you had to stand pretty straight etc. The requirements were that you had to pass the pre test which consisted of basic math etc questions, logic questions and somethings with with the x-ray machine (which takes a little bit of time to learn to read so don't worry about that). Than you have to have a pretty clean record to get clarence to work in an airport. They do a 10 year background check and you have to have at least a high school diploma and prove it. Please remember all this was 6 years ago so some of it may have changed by now. I'm now a gate agent with the airlines and love it. I don't make as much money but love the job. Here is a link to the TSA site https://tsacareers.taleo.net/