Originally Posted by
sgrd0q
No, you misinterpret the payscale. Say you are a 3rd year FO. You upgrade to CA and you start at the 3rd year pay for CAs. In other words, the "years", is total years employed as a pilot and is not reset when you upgrade.
That's true in the US...but not at a number of foriegn airlines. In some cases a year 5 FO who upgrades becomes a year 1 CA
Eagle would be a bad example...plan on being an FO for 5+ years, and that's being optimistic (it's 8 years now).
Typical, average regional you would upgrade at around 3 years...at which point you would be a year 3 CA.