Originally Posted by
iFlyer
James/T has long championed banded pay-rates, but what you propose makes a lot of sense: career earnings vs. time-at-job earning that money is where the real comparison lies. It is a useful metric, and indeed, the real measure of how "well" we get paid relative to other companies.
Southwest pays nearly 130 equivalent hours per month using their "trip" flight pay system, we see nothing close to that on a regular basis, yet our NB guys spend more days on the road earning their paycheck?
Let's compare total W-2 pay, contributions to retirement, and Time Away From Base, and see where we fall.
After all, don't we all want "more money, more time off?" That's the way to measure it and get it.
This right here. Just had a jump seater. Former Air Tran living in Atlanta, commutes to HOU. He flies four 3 days a month. The 3 day he was about to work was worth 19:30. For his 12 days working, he averages 95 TFP's; that works out to about 109 hours of pay. Not bad for 12 days. I'd have to work 21 days on the 717 to earn that. The usual suspects are making this TA out to be not that big a deal. When you put more money on top of arguably some of the best work rules in the industry, it's a big deal. The company funded B plan is nice as well. Meanwhile, back here, we're trying to figure out how far backwards we need to take our work rules to get industry standard pay...sigh.