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Lance Bandley ReportingThe Transportation Security Administration is anticipating one of the busiest travel season ever this summer and is paying bonuses to screeners to keep them on the job.
$500 dollar bonuses are going out next month and at the end of summer to hopefully keep TSA employees on the job.
"Fifty-five percent of our workforce nationwide leave within the first year. Salt Lake City we're a little more fortunate we have an attrition rate that's about half the national average."
Salt Lake TSA Acting Federal Security Director Ron Malin says 22 new TSA employees will start here Monday. He says they have around 600 workers statewide, most here at Salt Lake International.
"The job is physically demanding. It's mentally demanding. Because we're a 24-7 operation where we work weekends through the night etc. Some of them find it's difficult to manage the job with their personal life."
