Originally Posted by
Bzzt
Just to ballpark your yearly earnings (flight pay + per diem) you can take your hourly rate x 1,000 and you'll be pretty close.
I've found that as a reserve I make slightly less than my hourly rate x 1,000, and as a lineholder I make slightly more. It's a good ballpark figure but if you know average reserve times for your base you can make an even better estimate.
Year 1 on reserve at $22/hour I made 20k. Year 2 as a lineholder at $31/hour I made 35k.