Originally Posted by
lindg253
Wow, it wasn't that bad for me as an SIC, I was given on average 3 fly days and 2 counter shifts per work week. What you're talking about does suck, I probably wouldn't have stayed around either. Pay was $10/ hour but I got a lot of over time on the fly days. As an SIC I was building 70-80 hours a month too. My paychecks were around $800-$900 (bi-weekly) as an SIC. I honestly don't know what the new salary is for SIC's they just started it not too long ago. They did away with training contracts though for PIC's and we now get bonuses for every 6mo we stay with the company, which are progressively larger. It's also a renter's market out here right now, there's a lot of nice places available for rent that are under $600/ month which is another huge factor in the cost of living as well. I might have moved on by now if the industry was stronger. But for now I don't consider it such a bad place to be.
Well.. it sounds like it has gotten a LITTLE bit better, but still far from what it should be. When I was there you had to work the counter/ramp 4 days a week and they'd let you fly ONE day out of the week... that adds up to what, 20-30 hours at most a month? At that rate, it would've taken a looong time for SICs to upgrade! (considering most of the SICs hired have fresh commercial cert.)
I guess with all the crazy attribution they finally realized that they would need to start paying you guys a little more... though, a $2 raise is a joke when the pay was beyond terrible to begin with.