Originally Posted by fosters

$538/week x 52 weeks a year is only $28,000 not $36,000. How many weeks a year would you be working to make the posted $36,000?

Even so
Pilot
Year Cost
01....Training $50k + $10k room and board (negative amount)
02....CFI $15,000 +/-
03....CFI $20,000 +/-
04....F/O $27,000 +/-
05....F/O $38,000 +/-
06....F/O $42,000 +/-
07....C/A $70,000 +/- (assuming 3 year upgrade)
08....C/A $75,000 +/-
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$227,000 over 8 years net

Clerk at Convenience Store
01....$28,000
02....$28,000
03....$28,000
04....$28,000
05....$28,000
06....$28,000
07....$28,000
08....$28,000
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$224,000 over 8 years net

Doesn't even include a 4 year degree cost. Throw that in and you're looking at over a decade just to break even. And that assumes a 3 year upgrade. Which in the past may, or may not (6+) happen. Really, really infuriating how the union negotiated pay gave the spoils to the CA's and left the FO's out to dry.