Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
If, and that is a BIG IF, if we get the additional 900s, when all is said and done, Pinnacle will have roughly 100 aircraft. That means around 1100 pilots total, 550 will be FOs.
Under the 1113, what was top FO pay again? $34/hour? So $30,600/year guarantee? Less the cost of a crash pad... about $28,000. That is equal to $14/hour at a regular job. It's also less than the average first year McDonald's store manager.
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If you can feed the starving brats on $28,000 while commuting and sitting reserve, feel free to vote on a rock bottom TA. But, given the choice of a horrific contract that merely delays my eventual unemployment or demanding honest pay until my hastened unemployment, I choose the latter.
I understand your rage. You're way off base tho. I don't really need to argue the logic of your math but if you're going to subtract costs for one job you must take into account the cost of the other job. Also, everyone thinks they can get a job as manager of Home Depot or McD. Sorry my friend, those jobs are hard to come by.
You're going to start off as a cashier even with a business degree and you're going to make $500.00 week.
Back to my earlier point. It's easy to tell someone to quit a job. It's much more serious when you're responsible for others.
Having said all that, my gut and experience tell me Pinnacle mgmt is not being forthright.