Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Remember your W2 is not your income. If you cite income made at SW you need to use the same base at Delta. My W2 did not include 16,500 to the 401k, 5000 to the 401k catchup and 6000 to the health account. To arrive at a income number for comparison purposes you have to add all that back into the W2 number. For me thats a 26,500 dollar a year addition.
Neither did the SWA data. Their average Captain makes over $230K/year and their average F/O makes over $140K/year. As I understand it, that
is average W2 data for SWA. If you use our average 12 year MD-88 Captain as a basis for comparison (using 80 hours per month... I just don't buy your 87 hour average), he would need an approximate 45% increase in pay rate to match his counterpart at SWA.