Straight from Endeavor's website: "If money is your motivation, you'll earn it with your monthly flying hours, a $3,000 training completion bonus, a $20,000 annual retention package, and a competitive per diem and benefits package." Although they didn't state a specific value to the overall compensation, they broke per diem and benefits out in the above quote as part of the money package.

Your definition of reimbursement is not the same as mine. Are you collecting receipts for meals and filing them with your company to be paid back? Or are you collecting a set amount based purely on the amount of hours you are away from home? If it's the latter, then it's not reimbursement. Period.

Who cares what the IRS considers part of your income? I'm pretty damn happy I got a good amount of money from the military that didn't calculate into my adjusted gross income, but I'll sure as hell call it compensation.