Originally Posted by
Systemized
No one ever said 36K was a lot of money, it's not. Gold was just pointing out he's on track to gross that amount his first year. I read through his comments and he was not trying boast or state his opinion for that matter. I have a friend that went to skywest, during training he received 60 hours a month at $22/hr with no per diem and shared a hotel room. After training he spent the next 10 months on reserve not breaking guarantee and not flying a lot so not much per diem. He showed me what he made for that first twelve months, including perdiem it was 24K. If anything, what gold posted is more a comparison to other regionals first year pay.
All of what you just said is true, but would you say PSA is better than Skywest based on that? People need to get over just looking at first year pay. First year pay at the regionals is 1 year of your potential 30+ year career and the way things are going 10 years at the regionals. Almost every regional pays more than Skywest the first year, but not a single one pays more than even the Skywest turboprop 2nd year. Looking down the road past 2nd year I bet you can't show me any PSA captain who makes more than a Skywest, Expressjet or even Republic Captain.