Originally Posted by
Thunder1
5 yr F/O pay at CAL is $84/hour on a 737-700. That is horrible! Please up your expectations and your self-worth as a professional pilot. We all should be paid better at the largest airline in the world. I know that with your mil retirement you're thinking to yourself that you'll be making good coin with the combined salary. However, your mil retirement should have no bearing on what you are paid by the largest airline in the world. We should be on par with SWA pay which APC posts as 126/hr at year 5. CAL is a full 33% lower than SWA. This next contract needs to be not necessarily industry leading but at least competitive. Competitive would be within 5-10% of the PAX industry leader in pay. Just my 2 cents. Congratulations on your military retirement -- thanks for serving!
Thunder1
I agree that my military retirment pay should not be factored in to my expectations of my worth. I have applied to FEDEX, SW, Dynamic, L3, Pueblo IFS, RPAs, Southern Air, GS job as Sim IP and anyone else hiring. Not getting much of a response. If you don't get a call from a major player, you are going to make low wages. I have 20 yrs flying in the AF, not one black mark on my record. I have 4,500tt, 3,500 pic, 2,500 IP, all in jet traininers, fighters, and with UAL. I have tons of contacts for all these jobs, but not much they can do when SW is calling 100 out of 7000 and FedEx is hiring 20 per month out of a pool of 10,000. Even if I am in the top 5% it will take me a year to get called.
I was looking at going to SkyWest for year 2 pay, $37 per hour, until this happened. So I know I am worth more, but it isnt what you are worth, it is what they are willing to pay.