Originally Posted by
PRS Guitars
Agreed,
It definitely would have been a factor for me. If I'd had multiple offers, it would have weighed heavily. Yes, Delta doesn't pay for your hotel, and some others don't pay 85 hours a month and per diem in training like Airways, but that is more than made up for by the 60% higher pay the over the first year. And right now second and third etc beat us as well.
First year pay would have been the lowest thing on my list of this to look at. I looked at the next 29 years here not the first one. If first year pay drives you to another airline you could be making a huge mistake. Were else can you hold group 4 aircraft in less than two years. If hired today and this holds you will be making 154 an hour third year. At delta if you are stuck on the 717 up to the 767 you would make between 110 to 126. Movement can more than makeup for lower first year pay.