Originally Posted by
AftaMEI
Thanks for the advice that should be hitting me sometime in July
Ya was a huge surprise, was enjoying the training pay, then I got that check for $600 less and was like OUCH. It gets better the month after that, that one check just hurts because they adjust for over payment from the check before based on when you finish IOE, I finished on the 4th but got per diem till the 15th so they took a ton back, plus I had not gotten per diem for that month of line flying, because per diem is paid the end of the following month.
Then the second month final paycheck will only have the per diem from the 15-30 (or 31) of the last month.
So plan about 4 to 5 paychecks around 600 before you get the perdiem of a full month.
Just a heads up.
After that if you work your ass off you can get a final monthly payment of 1400 to 2200. But you'll have to break guarantee and get some OT.
What I do is work a lot one month, then next month take it a bit easier.
Of course if you're on the bottom of the reserve list it will be difficult to break guarantee. It can be done like when you're approaching the middle of the list.