Originally Posted by winglets

For those thinking about working at Colgan, you should know your first year you will make $18,000 and probably $25,000 for your second year. This is for flying a 70 seat airplane.

Horizon pays near $30,000 for the first year and over $40,000 for the second year. Horizon pilots also have a total compensation package $5,000-10,000 more per year than Colgan pilots, this is on top of the Horizon pay I mentioned above. This is for flying the same aircraft.

The Colgan pilots are in contract negotiations right now and you will be doing them a huge favor, in obtaining a good contract, by not accepting a job there, so management has nothing else to do than raise their pay.

Ignore those that tell you to ignore what I am saying. They either think that there is nothing we can do to change this industry, that $18,000 a year isn't wrong to pay a pilot to fly a 70-seater in EWR, or have some weird feeling to defend a company that pays poverty pay to their FO's. Why some pilots are on here praising you for choosing to work for Colgan for those wages is beyond me.

A pilot should never be compensated so poorly, that he/she is eligible for food stamps and multiple other government assistant programs.