Originally Posted by Tartan Army

Ok, I'm not one for calling people out, but there is absolutely no way this is true if this was a regional ramper and not mainline. I actually started on the ramp for Comair, which of the regional customer service groups was actually one of the "better" paid. I started at $8.50/hour and after 3-years was making $9.69 when I got hired in to my flight class. Many people I was working with that had been there 15-20 years at my outstation were topped out at $13.90/hour.

In order to raise families, most would routinely pull 70+ hour weeks to try to get as much overtime as possible. I know I pulled a couple 100+ hour weeks (6-days on, working 5 double shifts from 5am-midnight) and I wasn't the only one.

So if this is a true story, then this ramper was working some extreme overtime to come even close to that pay, or was a mainline ramper. Mainline could come close to that amount after about 7.5-years of service at Delta with a decent amount of OT, or after 10.5 years they'd be relatively close with only minimal needed OT.