Originally Posted by
Waggs
So if they hire someone at 45, they'll pay them the top of the scale for 8 years, if they decide/are able to upgrade. A 30 year old hire will be paid the top level for 23 years.
Overall, it's probably not even one of their considerations, it just seems like a 30 year old hire incurs much larger future labor costs than an older hire. There are certainly pros and cons to hiring both types of people and this is just one aspect of the decision. I'm sure they want a wide spread of people and backgrounds.
There will be more turnover in the lower pay scales if they have new hires with less than 12 years to age 65, no doubt. I'm sure the bean counters have run the numbers to see if it's cheaper to hire younger guys and keep them 35 years or hire older guys (age 53?) and constantly be running a new hire program to replace them.
If the company could hire nothing but age 60 pilots and turn them over every 5 years, I'm sure they'd LOVE that! Nobody would ever get to year 12 pay rates!
