Best I can tell it's down from last year. I have been scouring our financials to try and see if they report it anywhere, and I found one consistent presentation with YoY results. Buried in the quarterly Investor Presentations on one of the last pages is a page where the company reconciles GAPP to Non-GAAP CASM. In that report they breakout the profit sharing as a piece of the CASM. In todays Q3 presentation they break out an estimate for FY2018 with a comparison to FY2017:
page 25 here:
http://ir.united.com/~/media/Files/U...nings-call.pdf
Profit Sharing included in CASM
2017 .13 cents/mile x 234576 mil miles = $305 mil
2018 .12 cents/mile x 246304 mil miles = $296 mil
Now this isn't perfect because last year the PS pool was $349 mil not $305, and if you divide $349 mil by 234576 you get .149 cents which isn't what they are showing, but I think the YoY comparison is still relevant. If I'm right it looks like a hair under last years payout. Last year was 6% x W2 earnings for pilots.
Seems like we're earning more money, but at the cost of decreasing margins and for our PS calculations margins are key.