Originally Posted by
Tankerhead
Actually it’s 62 percent of the min.
Come September 2021, a ten year guy on the regular plan will have been compensated $128,000 for his year of EXTO, not including 401k or sick bank (many thousands more) with free healthcare (several thousand more).
To not come to work. To not have to lay eyes or ears on a flight attendant, a TSA smurf, a flag tie, or smell vomit or feces or air freshener wafting out of the lav or your seat cushion, to not have to watch and feel your captain treat every braking event like an RTO in Key West, to not have to hear the phrase “it’s just allergies” or “good jet”, to not have to smell wet socks and wonder if you’re being poisoned, no simulators, no VPTs, no farts, no body odors, no airport food, man the list goes on literally forever.
Yet you’ve been screwed? Cool.
I like what you say here, and I needed to hear it, but as a 19 year CA, $128k is a lot less, almost 25% of what I made in 2018 / 2019. So that makes me biased and feeling like I'm getting shafted.
It's never been a problem for me to manage my obligation here against our farm. It meant getting up at 5am, working hard until noon, taking a nap, and a late afternoon start. Going to bed early AM on the 1st over night, getting up at 5-6 AM, doing my office work, planning, e-mails from my hotel room, flying the 2nd day, having another office day of farm work and on the 3rd day, and getting home to simply start a new day of rotating livestock, dispatching my kills, and lining everyone out for their workday before I hit the rack.
It's good money to do NOTHING, but I could do very little, it wouldn't be a wrench in the works of other things I have going on, and I'd be getting paid a lot more. If I would have foreseen the level in which we'd get bailed out, I'd never have taken ExTO! Thus, I feel duped!