Tls will always make at least $4 from the starting wage. So if your stores starting wage is $17, the TL starting will be $21and experience will make it go up.
I’m order for you to switch workcenters you have to talk to your direct leader and the direct leader of the area you want to switch to. If both are okay with it HR can change your workcenter in the system.
In my district, our HRBP (we don’t have an ETL HR, just TL) won’t accept an NCNS without a seek to understand first making sure it was a mistake. Which, typically, the first one is. Just don’t let it happen again.