Originally Posted by LoneStarM1A

You will be making about 140k gross on your W2 (not including per diem) left seat of a 767 @ 6 years or 170k left seat 747 depending on if you waited a few months to upgrade on the 747 or took first available upgrade on the 767. This assumes no extra flying on days off. +/- 10% depending on sick calls, how you use vacation, conflict bidding training, etc. That's all pretty meaningless for new guys though, no idea what kind of seat a newhire today would be looking at in the year 2022. I've always made about 3-10% less than hourly rate x 1000 at Atlas, except my first year, under the old contract, during which I made significantly more. Let's just say 75% of the way through 2016 and I haven't yet grossed 100k, sitting left seat in a widebody aircraft.

It's because our schedules here aren't block time productive like a normal airline. Most of us rely on the 1 hour pay per 4.95 hours at work trip rig and industry lagging 62 hour guarantee (50 hour 1st year). Due to contract language we can and often are sent home early from trips and dropped to guarantee on the company's whim. I'm not trying to complain, these are just the facts.