Originally Posted by
Spartacusbob
Not at all you sweet summer child. The way it’s rigged now is that if you live in places with low taxes or affordable housing, you are already ‘basically’ getting a pay bonus.
The company does this for Guam because the col is high there, so there’s precedent. If the biggest hurdle to filling vacancies and properly staffing bases is indeed taxes and col (my presumption), then offset that via a cola.
I’ll counter that argument with the people in those high cost coastal bases have more earning potential due to ability to move up to higher paying AC/seats than those in mid continent bases. Not counting the base trades outliers, WBCA as an example is about 2-3000 numbers junior in EWR/SFO. I knew NBCA is currently out of whack and junior everywhere but an ILC should solve that. So IMHO they already are getting their pay offset.