You couldn’t pay me enough to frisk unwilling children and frail grandmothers the way they do. I can’t even touch my wife that way without consent.
Half the TSA employees? They would be thrilled to grab a feel for free even if they weren’t paid. Money is not the source of their morale problem - it’s political correctness with orders to do their job badly by pretending that all people are of equal concern that wrecks morale among their decent workers.
Mainly, the tsa appears to be a make-work job for unemployables. Have they ever caught a terrorist? There apparent job description is to intimidate, molest and browbeat American Citizens into submission. What a joke.