Originally Posted by
Thunder1
Swedish -- its more like this:
Total Pay 175K
Flight Pay 149K
Per Diem 5K
401K Match 13K
Profit Sharing 8K
So, 149K divided by $94.25 per TFP (Trip For Pay: SWA unit of pay) equals 1581 TFP for the year. Which equals 131 TFP per month which is what I did. I live in domicile. 1581 TFP divided by 168 days equals 9.41 TFP per day which is hard to do unless you only fly premium trips (time and a half) which I am not senior enough to do. So, instead I bid reserve and sit at home and get paid. I had 62 days of reserve where I never got called in last year. That is 62 x 6 = 372 TFP for sitting at home. So, back to my claim which some have questioned....
1581 TFP for the year minus 372 TFP for sitting at home equals 1209 TFP over 168 days of flying for 7.19 TFP per day -- which is about par for the course. In my original post I stated that I only left home for 168 days -- I didn't say I only worked 168 days. On paper, I "worked" 230 days. (168 of actual flying, 62 of sitting at home)
Math is hard, math in public is even harder!
Cheers!
So you are not counting the days you sat reserve as days working. That cannot be part of a fair and balanced comparison. Instead of working 14 days a month, you worked 17-18.
Good for you for working it. But can't skew the data like that. What about a UAL 3rd year FO that picked up 4 turns a month. He would make more. Claiming you know worked a certain amount and actually working more (weather you flew or not) is bad math.