Ok, here's a suggestion. Daily rate on a King Air is somewhere in the 400-600 range. Top tier pay on the Metro is 60K base + 6K turbine retention. 66K/ year. 52 weeks a year X 6 days a week is 312 days worked, many of them 12+hours. Let's use 500/day as a contract king air rate. For 312 days of work, you will bill for 156K a year. Sure you won't actually contract 6 days a week, so for comparisons sake let's say you want to keep your pay roughly equal. 66K divided by 500 a day is 132 days worked, or roughly 2.5 days worked per week. Throw in an extra few days a month and you will make up for the employer provided benefits like healthcare. Also, if you fly something other than a king air you will make more than 500/day.

So, would you rather work 6 days a week for 66K, or 3 days a week for 66K?


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