Originally Posted by sandstorm

For those of you with upcoming interviews and those interested in coming to Atlas, make sure you are educated as to how much you will be making. DO NOT believe it when HR will tell you during the interview that you will make $90K your first year and around $120K your second year. Do the math yourself based on guarantee. Yes, there will be a couple months where you will credit around 70-75 hours, but plan your finances based on guarantee as you can be sent home early for no reason at all and go from a 75 hour credit line down to 62 just like that. If you call in sick during the month, you don't get paid for the hours you miss. You get taken down to guarantee. If you maximize your time off during your vacation and don't take your vacation days on your awarded days off, you will be at 62 hours. If you conflict bid your training, there is a good chance you will be at 62 hours. I can't stress enough to plan your pay based on your hourly rate times your guarantee and consider anything else a bonus. And don't plan on picking up open time either during the lack of negotiations.

For a point of reference, I was on third year pay for a good chunk of last year and didn't even gross $95K last year.