Originally Posted by
Phteven
My math shows a $9200 difference between your pre-tax number and minimum guarantee, including training pay. That equates to 60 dropped days in 9 1/2 months. That's pretty much 1/3 of your schedule assuming you were on reserve that whole time.
Don't get me wrong, first year pay sucks, but it isn't quite that bad.
Well I went back and looked. There was one month when I had to drop quite a bit because life happened. Most months I drop 2-3 days, except for that one month when I had to drop the majority of it which brought the average up to a little over 4 days dropped/month over 9.5 months. Definitely not 60 days though. Don't forget training pay is actually $1000/month and $750 per diem, so my first 2.5 months here I made $2500.