Hired '96. Upgraded '07. Downgraded '10. Upgraded '13. So 3.5 years on the panel, 14 years right seat. About 17.5 years not in the captain seat. Probably more like 16.5-17 when you parse the months.

Someone posted about inflation; ie, hourly today not giving the buying power as was 20 years ago. Partially true. However, remember, the last contract we had fixed the hidden B scale for f/o's. Once upgrading to f/o from the panel, "back in the day", with 1-3 years on the property, f/o pay was based on a percentage of captain pay as always. Say was 66% of captain pay. The problem was there was no 1-3 year captains; therefore, captain hourly was very low and nobody really noticed it. This resulted in a hidden B scale for the f/o's. That was fixed in the last contract. F/o's today get a very nice raise their second year and continues from there. So the inflation factorial is partially true. But the other reality is that f/o's today make much more, even if accounting for inflation, than they did before. That hidden B scale went until about 9th year.