Originally Posted by
N1CEandEZ
For any RJ CAs out there can somebody shed some light on how much money one can expect to make on year 3 CA salary while one reserve? Is it pretty rare to break guarantee?
Do you want to budget realistically to decide whether to Upgrade from a cush FO schedule where you can swap, bid to fly with LCA to get displaced so you can pick up jr man flying, and fly the good trips, or are you trying to figure out what you can anticipate to really make?
Conservatively budget for 931 hours per year. I got that by figuring 75.8 hours per month plus 6 hours training pay, plus 6 holidays.
Then figure about $800 in total quarterly Performance rewards, $2000 in total quarterly Financial rewards, and $3000 Captain Pilot Profit Sharing checks.
Using 3rd year CRJ200 captain pay effective Jan 1, 2020 of $79.06, Total for all that is around $79000.
Conservatively Add in 100 Hours of Per Diem per month or another $2400 since per diem jumps a whopping $.05 to $2.00 on January 1st.
for a yearly gross of $81,400
Realistically? Add at least 10 hours per month of credit so another $9487 yearly.
Depending on base figure about 25 hours per month in the 700 ($4.46 per hour)/900 ($6.13 per hour), or $1338-1839
and about 250 hours per diem. or another $3600
Realistically about $95825 Gross.
Depending on base you may end up not flying much, but as a Captain don't plan on that. I think there were a total of 4 months out my 3 years of reserve I did not break Guarantee. Expect OBR if your base is overmanned, expect lots of call outs if it's understaffed.