Originally Posted by
Pedro4President
The conversation was on FO take home pay and you said you take home 4K per month. I’m more curious how much you credit than how much you take home. I bet there’s probably less than 5 FOs that take home what you claim to make.
What’s your average credit?
I know some FOs that can do really well working the system. Especially those that try to get their trips dropped for IOE. Some FOs just work down to 8 days off a month. I doubt you average 4K a month but I don’t think it’s crazy to say you make 4K a month occasionally or have made 4K over the past few months.
06/28/2019 Regular/Direct $3,1xx.xx
06/14/2019 Regular/Direct $1,1xx.xx
TTL 99:14 72:00 101:21 101:21 *
Next month will be a bit better than that one. Notice the low original line value. July is turning out to be about the same as what I posted above.
And no it's not the norm, but it's possible. Someone saying it's impossible is just wrong. There are guys making way, way more than this because they are senior enough to get what they want. The key for them is to get one of the insane day trip lines, drop a few and pick up a few of the same on different days. Gets you up to 110-130 (depends on the critical coverage availability) hour credit pretty easily, with 18-19 days off.
An average FO can't even smell these lines though, these are saved for the FOs who have been "medically unfit" for 7-8 years and now that their flow is approaching, they are suddenly feeling better.
I had 9 days off that month with 4 day turns, so 13 "nights off" when I was home at night. Better than some hard lines.