Originally Posted by
DLax85
$28K first YEAR seems pretty low --- were you extended on training pay for some reason (@$2K per month) or dropped a lot of trips?
I believe first year 727 SO rate was about $52 per hour back then, and a little over $60 an hour now ---- that should equate to about $54K per year once on the line.
2nd year SO pay is around $78 an hour --- but, most guys hired now will either be on narrow body FO pay (~$117 an hour) or wide body FO pay (~$143 an hour) on their 2nd year --- depending on what domicile you bid.
You can safely estimate you'll get 900 hrs per year with min BLG + 4 recurrent training days per year....thus, 2nd year pay could range from $70K to $105K to $128K...plus, A fund and B fund benefits.
One shouldn't sweat going to ANC, HKG or CGN if you don't want to --- they only take volunteers.
My back-of-the-napkin WAG calculation went like this, forgive the formatting:
FDX Stay NJA Loss/Gain
1 45000 119254 -74254
2 129600 123427 -68081
3 129600 127747 -66228
4 132300 132219 -66147
5 135000 136846 -67993
6 137700 142320 -72613
7 140400 142320 -74533
8 143100 142320 -73753
etc.
Again, just a WAG with a base pay to base pay comparison, and best case as a widebody FO at FDX. So, it appears, on a strictly monthly take home level, that it would take the upgrade at FDX to recoup the first year pay hit. As for an entire career, forget about it, FDX wins by millions of dollars. But I had a multi-million-dollar major airline career back in 2001 and that, uh . . . .
There is no doubt in my mind that one can work far fewer days (or nights as the case may be) per year at FDX, especially if one lives in domicile.