Originally Posted by CaptDad17

Here’s the short version. I’m the IT Director for a construction company in Nebraska with no pilot experience. Back in January, my boss asked me if I wanted to be the corporate pilot to fly the PM’s to job sites around the Midwest and beyond, he would pay for all my training; private, instrument, commercial single-engine, commercial multi-engine, and CE-500 type rating. So far, it’s just pilot duties, nothing more. I’ll be flying a Cessna 206 for shorts trips and Citation Ultra for longer trips. I’m halfway through my instrument now and should be ready to fly for the company by next summer (just the 206). It’ll be a while until I’m in the Citation.

We’re about to negotiate the employment proposal and I want to know where the ballpark is. My pilot duties will be totally separate from my IT duties, so it’ll be like working 2 jobs. I’ve never been a pilot and they’ve never hired one, so neither of us know what it should look like. I just want to make sure I’m not getting low-balled, even if he is paying for my training. It’ll start with single engine piston, then SIC in the Citation, then eventually PIC. Curious about salary progression.

Also wondering what kind of stipulations should be in place; advance notice for flights, flying on weekends, final authority for cancelling a flight, anything else I can’t think of. Sorry, very new to this. Don’t really care about benefits, that’s covered under the IT gig.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.