I found this gem while browsing through the “majors” section. Its the first post on page 8 of the thread titled “end of year salary”.

It does say he was on captain pay for 3 months, but the key is he was still an FO for the other 9 months. All while still averaging 17-18 days off.

I’m on the 5 year Captain scale at PSA. I’m a lineholder and pick up SDO and this guy still has me beat. If you take away his per diem he’s at $85,683. To make that amount on 5 year captain pay at PSA... you’ll be at 93.6 hours per month. Even if you pick up SDO here at PSA thats only going to give you around 14 days off. 15 if youre lucky. When the tier system goes into effect in April you’ll only be getting around 12-14 days off to make that much at PSA.

So basically this Endeavor FIRST OFFICER is able to make as much as a 5 year line holding captain at PSA that works 4-6 days more per month. I’m about a year from flowing so I plan on sticking it out, but at least on the bright side... I wont be taking a pay cut when I flow.

For comparison, at PSA to get 17-18 days off you’ll have to SAP down to 65 or 70 hours per month. To be generous ill say 70. Even on 5 year captain pay that comes to $64,083. Thats more than $20k LESS than an Endeavor FO with the same days off.

Endeavor might not be hiring right now, but Republic, Skywest, and ExpressJet with their bonuses are all in the same ballpark.