I worked around/for/over the “low morale TSA types”....if they won’t do the job now, giving them more money won’t help...the more you reward bad behavior, the more entitled the slackers feel...nothing will ever be enough to give them a solid work ethic.
That’s not just for the TSA. I’ve seen that with other occupations too. The problem usually isn’t the pay, it’s the people. It’s likely a combination of bad bosses and bad employees working a job and not a career. Their hearts aren’t into it. If the job is not a good fit, they get bored, angry, miserable or a combination of things negative things. The good employees get crushed until they either quit or become one of the bad employees.
Pay for performance is you perform, you get rewarded with higher pay. It’s not we’ll give you higher pay now go preform better.