Originally Posted by
WaterRooster
4 4-day trips. 16 days out of 30 or 31 days. You are right, it’s more then half the month 😑. To use your O5 pay reference, how much work were you doing for that pay? How many field problems? How much off duty “work” did you have to do? We as pilots do not work hard for what we do and are compensated well for doing so little.
You are absolutely free to have your opinion of the compensation for the level of work involved. I personally feel we do work hard for what we do and are compensated at the low end of adequate.