Just checked my offer letter from a while back. It says training pay is $28.57 per hour and $26 a day in "lodge dollars." That's $28.57 at your lineholder hourly min guarantee of 70 hours a month, because while you're in initial apparently you only work 70 hours a month. Ridiculous! Way to show the caring value and make pilots appreciate their new job. That's a good way to keep quality applicants away who can't afford that measly pay. My paychecks were laughable.

Training pay needs to be first year hourly rate at reserve min guarantee of 75 hours ($4,050/month), plus normal per diem ($1,400/month), not lodge bucks. Or if they are gonna do $26 a day per diem instead of real per diem, make it $26 USD not $26 use or lose lodge currency. Of course, newhires shouldn't be at the lodge in the first place and should get the standard $2/hr real per diem, but that's a different topic.