Poor working conditions and low pay for airport service workers are an increasingly urgent problem — it's led to high turnover, especially in the current tight job market.
Before the pandemic, median wages for airport service workers were below the private sector median of $20.40 an hour, according to an analysis of Census data from 2015-2019 released this week from the progressiveEven though wages for airport workers have since gone up, along with pay for most low-wage jobs, pay in the sector still lags behind other service industries.
For instance, passenger attendants in the airline industry — like Johnson, who helps disabled people make their flights — earned an average of $14.40 an hour in 2021,Johnson's pay at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is up 50% from 2019 but is still just $12 an hour. He works 40 hours a week and doesn't get paid sick days.Johnson has a disability himself , and he says he empathizes with the customers he helps at the airport — he loves the job.
Repealing wage standards for construction workers would save the federal government $24.3 billion over the next decade, per a paper from a construction trade group, which
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