At EA, 1985, I was on the A scale, last line to not have a B, I think, probie pay was $1200 a month. DL guys were in high cotton; they looked sharper, drove better cars and had the best girls. Second year was about $35,000, IIRC, in the back seat of the Boeing. -9 pay was about 5,000 more, if you could hold it. Captains, after the Lorenzo contract, were making about $100,000.
Cap was 80 hours, then went to 84 under the Borman/Lorenzo contract. The old guys boasted they got a pay increase.
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