Originally Posted by
Scoop
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Originally Posted by
Express pilot 
We had a SW 07 hire FO on our jumpseat yesterday. His W2 was 160,000 last yr with 15-16 days off a month. Around 850 hrs of flight time pay. The key is flight time pay. He showed us a 4 day trip that he just finished with 21 hrs of flying but 29 hrs of pay. This is the norm. A min 3 day pay credit is around 20 for 15-16 hrs of flight time. He said he could make more but being a commuter you know how it is
Elvis,
I wouldn't put too much weight to specific W-2 assertions on this thread. A few days back a post mentioned a 5 yr SWA FO who said his W-2 was $145,000. It is very hard to make specific comparisons between DAL and SWA but it should be clear to everyone including DALPA -
Our compensation is poor and needs to increase.
Scoop
What's hard to compare? You make X amount in your W-2 and work X number of days. An SWA pilot makes X amount in his W-2 and works X number of days. As long as the SWA pilot is not working a significantly higher number of days than you are (which it sounds like they're actually working less), it seems to me that the W-2 is extremely relevant.