Originally Posted by
notEnuf
We've been through this before. You know most of the information is proprietary so there's that but this went public back in 2017. You are not correct.
Effective April 1, 2017, eligible ground and flight attendant employees in U.S. will receive a 6% base pay increase at all steps on all scales. The April 1, base pay increase will be the 10th increase since 2007, totaling over 64% at top of scale pay. At the start of this year (2016), Delta lifted the base pay of all hourly employees by 14.5 percent. And from another article dated 2/14/2018... According to Delta, total annual compensation at the airline has increased by 80% since 2008. This includes a 6% raise in base pay in 2017 and an 18.5% raise in 2015. They specifically explain pilots were excluded.
https://www.businessinsider.com/delt...-raise-2016-11
https://www.businessinsider.com/delt...g-bonus-2018-2
I also have all the "since bankruptcy" stuff the company published during the last union drive. Your percentage gains are well above the pilots and above industry peers and above inflation adjusted bankruptcy era scales. Not mention PPT, holiday pay and getting pilot profit sharing back.
Yeah I remember Delta putting out that info and they were lying. There's no other way to put it. Top hourly pay for flight attendants on 01/01/2007 was $39.75 and on 04/01/2016 it was $61.28. They can say the total is 64% but if you have a calculator you can see that it isn't 64%. Not to mention that last 14.5% was due to the obliteration of our profit sharing for 2 years where I personally lost over $15,000 on that alone.
The second statement about compensation rising by 80% "since 2008" in that article dated Feb of 2018 is also a lie. In 2008 top pay for flight attendants was $42.30 and when that article was published it was $64.96 per hour. So again, you can pull out the calculator and see that it's nowhere near the 80% they claim.
Lastly, compare pilot pay on 01/01/2007 to where it is now and then compare top hourly F/A pay on 01/01/2007 and compare it to what it is now. The pilot group has received more in increases as a percentage than the F/A group has.
Top F/A hourly pay on 01/01/2007 = $39.75
Top F/A hourly pay today = $72.38
That's an 82% increase.
Top Captain 777/A350 rate on 01/01/2007 = $188.31
Top Captain 777/A350 rate today = $353.85
That's an 88% increase.
If my numbers are wrong feel free to correct me.