Originally Posted by
KTM1524
How many days flying out of the month would you say is realistic for making that kind of money? He is still trying to tell me that he is right even after showing him this forum.
Let’s assume he’s a 12yr captain. (He’d need to be even more senior to really earn but that’s the top rate. Plus if he’s 40 there’s no way he’s very senior as a captain) That means his pay rate is $224.80. $400,000 / 224.80 = 1,779.36 trips for pay he needs to credit. That’s 148.28 trips per month. Even if he ONLY flew premium trips (1.5 x pay), he’d need to be flying around 14-15 days a month.
Those calculations don’t factor in vacation or profit sharing or 401k contributions from the company, but I don’t need to factor them in to say it’s absolute bull**** that anyone can make that much flying one trip a month. Not even remotely close.