Originally Posted by
gringo
100 hours a month is pretty easy to do, even in the slow months. Yeah, you work for it, but it’s available if you want it.
It’s the summer months where things get interesting. Chaos breeds opportunities. Sometimes lots of opportunities.
I’d say 120-150 is pretty typical, and I’ve even broken 200 once. Granted, that month might have been a fluke, but I know guys who are centrally located in Florida; they Y list themselves for FLL, RSW, TPA, MCO and their phone don’t stop ringing. 220+ on more than one occasion. Supposedly ACY has one of these guys as well. PHL, EWR, LGA, and ACY all fall under his 3 hour driving radius...
Increased staffing has been brought up, and indeed that might affect things moving forward; at this point it’s too early to tell because Guitar Hero didn’t start properly staffing this airline until after the summer crush. So with that in mind, I’d be happy to revise my original statement; while my W2 was well north of $250k, moving forward I’d say ballpark of $250k is readily achievable on fifth year pay.
And that doesn’t even factor in the DC, should one choose to include that number into their calculations.
Living in base, or close to multiple Spirit destinations, makes all the difference in the world. If you call Billings Montana home, not so much.
I was well north of $250k last year and that of course included the signing bonus. So for 2019 I figured “hey, if I can make $200k, since no bonus, that would be easy to do”
Based on this last months credit, which will be the last month of credit earned for 2019, my $200k goal is looking to settle at $280k
But how....how is that possible, show me the math?!
Same as mentioned before. We had a few months of summer x list calls. So averaging 100+ a month isn’t hard when you have a few months on 170 and 180.
Next year I’ll say “ok, staffing won’t be as short, so $225k would be a nice number”. But the one thing I know about Spirit, the next meltdown is just around the corner. So I won’t be shocked if in 1 year I’m saying “well north of $250k and knocking on $300k”