Originally Posted by bdschobel
That's ridiculous. The TSA has 45,000 screeners. If fewer than 1 in 1000 applicants are actually hired, then at least 45 million people applied for those 45,000 jobs. Try again.
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Even more ridiculous since the TSA started out with nearly 55,000 employees. It has since shrunk, but additional persons have been hired (mostly part time) since the ramping up in the summer of 2002. 1 in 1000 applicants would equate to over 60 million applicants since 2002. 60 million applicants? Hardly.
60 million would be nearly 43% of the total number of employed persons in the USA and over 40% of the total labor force in this country.
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Anyone who thinks the TSA received more than 5% of that 60 million number is not a math whiz.
At most, probably about 2 million applications, as 1.7 million had been received by the end of 2002:
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004...a-04-26-04.asp