Originally Posted by
captive apple
Amazon doesn’t have a job for everyone and the math doesn’t compute to being beneficial to you.
Amazon generously pays a minimum wage of $15/hr or $600/wk before taxes and deductions or about 30k a year if you never miss a day.
I made 50k/year translating into $20/hr at work.
Here is the kicker, I averaged 17 days off a month that year. Amazon offers less than half that.
If you really feel strongly about doing something that is personally worse feel free to do it, you will be succeeding in helping your fellow pilots by removing yourself from a pilot heavy payroll.
I “made” more than amazon last year too. The thing is You vote in concessions to lower the pay rate or change the minimum to 60 hours it’s not even close. You can’t compare what you made during the best year of airline pay to what it will be during the worst plus concessions.
let’s look at year 2 FO at 60 hours. 60x38=2280, 2280x12=27360, 27360/52=526, 526<600. If they decide for lower rates the outcome will be much the same. Both of these will take decades to recover from as the company will always play hardball. So yea, I would rather work at Amazon for a few years and come back to higher income to fly a plane.
I’m sure min days off and short call reserve that you have to commute to will change your mind at 60hrs a month.