Originally Posted by DAL73n

The thing we need to remember is there are lots of ways to make more money other than a 50-60% pay raise.

Just a few off the top of my head: (no particular priority)

1. Better rigs (6hrs./calendar day (no more 10:30 3 days),
2. More pay for each day of vacation - 6 hours/day sounds good. Pay and credit for vacation.
3. Better distributed training pay (how about 1 minute of pay for every minute we have to watch the CD)
4. Better training pay for CQ (how about 6 hours/day including the travel day
5. DC plan increasing from 14% to at least 20%.

Those are just a few quickies to make more money with the same or less work. Add that to say a 25% first year and 5% a year after that and you'll see some real nice increases in W2's with LESS work - if you need even more then you can work more. These numbers are just used for illustration purposes.