Originally Posted by
Wasatch Phantom
PCL,
You're wrong about the DAL 737 rates.
I was hired by DAL in 1990 and for some reason I still have a copy of all the DAL pay rates at that time.
Here they are:
02 Mar 90 737-200 (the -300 was slightly more)
$148.45
01 Sep 92 737-200
$155.88
01 Aug 94 737-200
$158.99 (That's 20 bucks an hour more than your number)
It's also $30.00 an hour more than SWA.
DAL's hourly rate was more than 20% greater than SWA's. I consider that significant.
One of the things you also need to look at is how much you're actually getting paid... hourly rates are just part of the equation and way overly emphasized! We only havea 70 hour guarantee, so to compare us to a company with a 75 hour guarantee, we need 107% of their rates just to be equal in hourly pay. Or say, UPS who has an 82 hour guarantee you're looking at 117% increase above their current book value just to be equal!