You will get paid 75.36 hours minimum for being on reserve. If you fly a 6 hour trip, that will be part of the 75.36 hours. If you fly a round trip for say 2 hours, then sit ready reserve for 4 hours (paid 2 for 1) and you will have 4 hours go towards the 75.36 hours. If you fly more than 75.36 hours, they will go back and pay you 4.12 for every day you were on reserve but not used. Or on days where you only flew 2 or 3 hours, you will get paid the difference up to 4.12. So basically every reserve day will be paid at 4.12 But here's the catch, when reserves had 19 days, most of the time they would squeak in and get it by a couple minutes. When the company dropped it to 18 days, that makes it that much harder to get over the 75.36. Reserve guys tried to point this out last pay package, but were ignored by people who either haven't sat reserve or haven't flown the line in 8 years.

Where you get hosed on reserve (and line holders for that matter) is that you will fly a round trip then have a 3 or 4 hour sit. These pay you nothing. So you will get sent to another base to sit reserve (because they sent a reserve out from that base to your domicile earlier in the morning) and have you do a RT, then schedule your deadhead for 3 hours later. Between driving to the airport from your house, deadhead, flying and waiting for your deadhead back, you will be sitting around a 14 hour duty day. If you feel too tired to drive home, don't worry. It is legal. Not safe or ethical by any means, but legal.