Originally Posted by
Karma
It's really not that bad. My W-2 for last year was $41,058 as an FO with an average of 17 days off a month. Most of the time I feel like I don't have a job and one of my neighbors still thinks I'm unemployed because I'm always around.
That's BS. There are VERY few pilots who would agree that "it's not that bad". Also, I find it interesting that you earned over 10% more than me and we are both FOs topped out on pay for the last 2 years. Funny how you average 150% of my number of days off. Where are you based?
The dollar amount is realistic. As a topped out FO, I W2'd 42k in 2010 and 2011. But, I bid for max days off and only averaged 15. 16 was a bonus and I never saw 17.
And that's topped out, at the top 20% of the list in my base.