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Old 06-25-2016, 04:38 PM
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I've used the APC pay calculator many a times, and the highest I could get was just over 300K with United Airlines Pay Rates. However, I have no idea how accurate these are. What can I realistcally expect to make first year regional FO, first year regional captain and then what do most Major captains top out at? I'm sure this question gets asked quite a bit, but I don't know where to find the info.
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I've used the APC pay calculator many a times, and the highest I could get was just over 300K with United Airlines Pay Rates. However, I have no idea how accurate these are. What can I realistcally expect to make first year regional FO, first year regional captain and then what do most Major captains top out at? I'm sure this question gets asked quite a bit, but I don't know where to find the info.
A lot of different answers but best way to determine what youll make it by taking hourly rate and multiply by 1000 and thats around how much youll make annually. First year Regional FO around 35k.. 5 year regional Captain pribably around 65-70k and major heavy captain all the way up to 300k
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And remember, you may or may not become a wide body captain.

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Maybe this much
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Old 06-25-2016, 05:21 PM
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A lot of different answers but best way to determine what youll make it by taking hourly rate and multiply by 1000 and thats around how much youll make annually. First year Regional FO around 35k.. 5 year regional Captain pribably around 65-70k and major heavy captain all the way up to 300k
+1 Broncofan is spot on. There are also many extreme examples of senior people working the system, working a lot or some combination of both. There are several senior SWA CA's cracking $450k, a B6 FO making $250k, several senior FedEx Widebody CA's breaking $550k, etc. Again, these aren't typical at all but all true and most of these examples take decades of seniority to pull off.
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Major w/b CA is $300-350K. Working the system guys are busting $400K.
1000 hrs of pay is a typical ballpark. 1100-1200 hrs of annual pay hours is possible.
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I probably averaged 1200 hours of pay per year at the regional I worked at. At AA probably around 1000 hours of pay/year.
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I probably averaged 1200 hours of pay per year at the regional I worked at. At AA probably around 1000 hours of pay/year.
A lot of bad decisions?
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Shoot for the stars but plan on low to mid 100.
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Narrowbody CA living in base + scarfing on 1.5 "Premium Flying" which is 1.5 the regular payrate. $270K + 16% 401K.

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