Originally Posted by
Terantious
$100K+ a year...highly doubtful unless you are at least a 15 year captain doing about 85 hours a month or you are whoring yourself out. Unless you got a raise negotiated by SAPA, oh wait...SAPA is useless.
Typical captain is around 12 years seniority, which pays $88 an hour. Let's assume an 85 hour credit month. That alone is $90K. Add in another $6k+ for the bonus/pps. A couple thousand for 7/900 override, and even if they only fly locals a couple thousand in perdiem, it reaches $100K pretty easy. If that didn't do it, don't forget to add another 30 hours of pay for holiday and CQ training as well.
Junior captain on the property making only $70 an hour at year four should see $80k minimum. -- Unless they sit on reserve all of the time and never break guarantee. (which is highly unlikely)
15+ year captains can do $120K easy. And it's why most of them aren't interested in starting over somewhere else.