Originally Posted by
simscott
Crazy that starting fire fighter pay in Texas is mid $50’s, for 6 months of training. Yet a few years, numerous check rides and a $70k debt later you’re lucky to get a $45k a year regional job.
The sign on bonus may be a thing of the past but if they eliminate it they will discourage many career changer that just can’t afford the pay cut. And let’s be honest, during the last few good years the majority of new hires were career changers 35-50 year olds.
Why do you think there was a “““shortage”””? Spend tens of thousands of dollars and spend half the month in a hotel/crash pad to make what an ASSISTANT manager at a big box retailer does as an RJ captain (store managers smoke the regionals in pay)? Say what you want about millennials, but they realized what a joke that was which forced regionals to pay better wages. We’ll see how the dust settles of the next yearish in regards to the labor market.