Originally Posted by
Flying Monkey
I'm not the brightest light in the hall, but a 11 year 73N FO only has to fly 71 hours a month to crack 100K. I'm going to be close this year (will do it if I get 87 hours Nov and Dec), and will definitely hit it (if I can keep holding a line) next year. With no trip parking!!
And, I'm a 4 year Mad Dog executive.
Don't get me wrong, I will not settle for anything less than significant improvements in this next contract, but I don't see the need for exaggeration either.
It wasn't an exaggeration since my W2 hasn't shown 100K gross yet. While I should make it this year (I fly my schedule with min lines) and very often drop trips for personal/family issues so I may not credit the 847 hours I need to make 100K gross so I guess it's partially my fault. The fact is I made over 110K (in a 9-5 staff job with no deployments) in 2002 active duty AF (with $18K of it tax free) - picked up a retired officers slot after furlough. The fact that this year may be my first year over 100K gross doesn't say much about our pay. Never saw a dime of C2K (after first year engineer pay I was on Express so C2K didn't do much for that A/C).