Originally Posted by WEACLRS
Minimum days off at Colgan is 10, not 8.
Maybe he miscounted, but that's what he told me. Yes I agree about staying put vs. moving to a junior base.
Fosters, what do you think at your company your total pay would be over four or five years, with the current upgrade times?
Current upgrade times are running just shy of 3 years, due to a major amount of attrition.
Note
figures below include per diem (about $5,000 per years worth), but do not include 401(k) company match. They are also based on getting lines in the 90-hour area.
1st year - $30k Total so far: $30k
2nd year - $40k Total so far: $70k
3rd year - $40k Total so far: $110k
4th year (CA) - $70k Total so far: $180k
5th year (CA) - $73k Total so far: $253k
Keep in mind these figures are for people who actually WORK, not sit reserve (either by choice or because that's what they can hold) and for people that bid high credit lines. It seems most people are bidding the commuter friendly schedules, which makes most of the high credit lines (ie 90+ hours) available for the junior guys who live in base.
I talked to a sixth year CA who's W2 showed $80k last year. Not bad. The reason being they were REALLY short of CA's (and still are, to some extent) and have to junior man people (1.5 pay). HOWEVER, that being said, YOU are in the better postion because YOU have the turbine PIC NOW, not later. All things considered, upgrade at Colgan will be less than most other carriers, unless one happens to see rapid expansion.
Originally Posted by buffalopilot
fosters, who do you fly for to make 70 thousand total the first 2 years.
The pay rates listed here are misleading. I flew 55 hours of FAR block time in April but credited 102 hours. This month I will be close to 100 as well, same goes for June. I'm also a junior FO.
I work for a US Air feeder.