Originally Posted by
Utah
OP, you seem like a smart, educated guy. The answer to your question is obvious. We get paid the way we do because we are willing to show up for what is offered.
In your case that's a guarantee of 76 hours a month at $24 an hour, -- or $1824 a month or $21,888 a year. Kind of makes you a little sick thinking about it that way. All of that education and money spent of flight training for that level of compensation.
Utah,
Thank you. To the other posters, I'm not complaining about the amount of hourly pay. We all understood the pay rates before we signed up.
What I just can't understand is why, in the modern age, anyone of us is OK with giving, say, 14 hours of our day and being paid for 4. How is it that we've all agreed that time spent preflighting an aircraft, running pre start checks, checking weather, etc., is all time that should go unpaid?
I suppose the other way to look at it is to ignore the hourly pay and simply look at the monthly guarantee as a monthly salary.
It still boggles my mind, though... In my other life I run a small design studio that does a lot of work for a company that begins with G and ends with oogle. We have a number of designers and writers on our payroll. I've tried to explain the airline pay system to my team and they simply can't believe I'm telling the truth. If anyone in the design industry tried to implement similar pay rules, they'd instantly find themselves bereft of employees...