Originally Posted by sailingfun

Vacation pay, training pay, international pay, reroute pay, profit sharing, paid trip drops, 415C overage pay and GS's. I broke 600k easily on a 334 dollar an hour rate. I was not close the to the highest paid pilot in my category. The guy who was probably at the top was about 50% in category. Keep in mind that when most pilots quote their pay rate they use their W2. They omit things like their 401K contributions.
That 438 dollar an hour rate becomes 525 an hour after you hit the 415C limit on international pay. Many hit that at the end of the first quarter. A 4 day GS with 25 hours pay is worth 26,000.00 dollars. 1 of those a quarter boosts your pay 100,000 a year! Also keep in mind it boosts your disability over 4000 a month if you do that. Thats the best disability insurance you can get and you only need to fly those 4 extra trips 1 out of every 3 years.
Look at a low work tolerance 330CA. Flies a basic schedule of 960 hour a hear. First 6 months gets 214,000K and hits 415C limit. Second 6 months makes 250K. He is at 474,000. He only gets say 2 reroutes as they happen less on international. Say 40 hours pay. He gets two 3 day trips dropped and WS over it. Picks up another 40 hours. Gets 15 hours training pay and flies a bit extra in his 5 vacation months. Let's say 5 extra those months for 25 total. Could ba a lot more! That's another 55,000 or so a year in pay. He's at 524,000. 8% profit sharing puts another 41k in the mix. 565 K now and he flies 1 good GS that year. Boom! 600,000.00