Originally Posted by
Squawk87
Of course everyone have different definition of "fair"... In my opinion, "fair" wage for F.O would be 70% of C.A pay. Let's say first year CA makes $62/hour (ERJ145 CA), then first year FO should make $43/hour (70% of 62)... 5th year CA makes $69/hour, according to the same logic 5th year F.O should make $48/hour and so on...
Its not that simple unfortunately. You don't put money where you don't have people. For example, if you haven't hired in 8 years.. then you aren't going to have any 4 year captains...no need to pay that slot.. that artificially lowers the 4 year F/O rate, which is not a problem now but will be when you start hiring..