It's not very commutable, cabin seat "jumpseat" agreements only with most carriers except United and Alaska. Work schedule is 4 on/3 off - 5 on/2 off alternating on a 4 week bid. Home every night, but once in a blue moon you may have to overnight at another station for minimal per diem. Usual workday is something around 5:15am to 5:00pm or so, varies based on the line that you get for the day. Sometimes you get a later show, or a shorter day.
FO starting pay is $12/duty hour based on a 64.6 duty hour biweekly minimum guarantee.
Caravan pay is $15/hr.
Otter Captain pay starts at $22/hr.
Bases are BVU and GCN. The season will be over around the end of September, may trickle slightly into October. Pilots will get 230-300 flight hours during the six month period between Oct 1-Mar 31. There will be minimum guarantee checks during winter. Most pilots use winter as a recuperation period from summer, lots of time to travel and rest.
Contract: Otter is one-year, $10,000 training contract which they'll tell you starts the day you pass your checkride, but there's nothing in the contract about that, only one-year from date signed - which is your indoc date. Pro-rated after six months.
Caravan is one-year, $5,000 training contract or something in that range.
Training is very serious, Part 121 style training program. When GCA and Scenic Airlines merged, they took a lot of the training program from Scenic which was 121 at the time. The aircraft aren't very difficult to learn, but it is a lot of classroom and sim time. You can expect to fly your last couple training flights and checkride at 3am into LAS for your approaches.
Day to day isn't bad, but can get fatiguing. Anywhere from 4 to 10 legs daily, constantly taking photos with passengers, giving briefings, cleaning the cabin after every flight, etc. But, if you're a low-time guy, this place can launch your career with a year of hard work.