Originally Posted by brocklee9000

No one is going to really know reserve times for a while. We’re getting a bunch of planes in both fleets. Several bases are growing, including Denver. This could either mean a bunch of new hires staff it from the bottom up (ie you guys are at the bottom and on reserve for a while) or it could get staffed from transfers, meaning you might not even get it for a while. This next year us going to be wild. We’re also losing a lot of people a month now, I bet soon we go back to the 50-60+ once everyone is hiring. An internal report the other day shows lots of people going to spirit, United, cargo, among others.

As for pay. A good rule of thumb is to take your hourly pay rate and multiply by 1000. If you want to be extra conservative, multiply it by 900. You’ll notice 76*12 is 912. A thousand is a safe estimate by the time you accrue per diem and various pilot bonuses. I just did some quick checking. On third year pay $56.58*1000 is $56,580. As a lineholder getting 85-90 average hours a month, including per diem, and subtracting insurance and 401k deductions, and then add the pilot bonuses, I’m on target to take home $55K to $56K (again this is after all deductions for HSA, 401k, insurance, taxes, everything). Pretty spot on. So if you want to err on the cautious side, assuming on reserve not breaking guarantee or picking up extra flying and not getting much per diem, 900 times first year pay may be a good estimate.