Originally Posted by JTwift

As a guy on reserve, who hasn’t flown the entire month of September (yay), I did the quick math of my hourly pay rate for me to sit in a crash pad, away from home. With 11 days off, and factoring in the 24 hours each day I’m away from home, I made about $6.50 an hour.

Yeah, I know that’s playing with the numbers a bit, but...I’m away from the fam to sit on reserve (why do we need 12 people on reserve again?j, so I consider that part of the job.

If you figure that P1 reserve is 14 hours and you only get paid for 4, that makes your reserve pay less than $10 an hour.