Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

Exactly it's better to get guaranteed money over hoping to work language in your favor every month. And I know joey's example was just for illustration but a more accurate representation would be is better to make $190/hr at 72 hrs (3 yr captain) than try to work language to make 108hrs of credit at $126/hr.

I'm not advocating giving up any language. For what? There is no reason to. The market dictates big raises with zero give backs. It's not 2010. Always take guaranteed money over maybe money that you have to strategicly bid for and sacrifice other parts of your month to get and only a small percentage of the group actually achieves. That's just common sense. The other way would be like taking profit sharing over a 16% retirement contribution. Just stupid.