If you are currently employed with SkyWest all you get is the top seniority number in your new hire class. In order to get that you have to be employed as a ramper (or otherwise) at the time you get hired as a pilot. Your seniority date changes to that new hire date, otherwise it wouldn't be fair in domicile bids to other pilots.

Hope that you get the bro initially because if you get the jet you will spend the same amount of time at the bottom while all of the Bro pilots insert ahead of you in domicile/line bids. The RJ is fun too though.

(I was typing my message before Utah posted his)