Originally Posted by
BPWI
This. Top 5% (NE) for a 90K+ aircraft is hovering between 300-350K in total compensation. Combine that with a week on/week off schedule and at least 6%+ match on retirement. Leaving mid trip on your first week for that? Doesn't make sense, financially or otherwise.
Exactly. Everybody has their own opinion on what good pay is.
The market (capitalism) sorts it out.
I had one guy who had very specific requirements which I met offer me a job. Pretty much all the same except a little less than 2/3 the pay. Kept telling me what a great job it was. And it was. All except the pay. But to him it was great.
However the best was I had another guy talk to me about a job. Same type I fly now. Now I work 2 weeks on/off. He was offering literally half what I make now and NO time off except vacation. I had to use all my willpower not to laugh in his face. I mean I thought it was a joke at first.
Point is some people are stuck in 2010 and in 2010 these would have been acceptable to many without jobs.
Now to use someone else's quote I read a while ago.
Back then pilots were looking for planes to fly.
Now planes are looking for pilots.
Times have changed.