Originally Posted by
jayray2
Where do you work? My W2 for 2010 on THIRD year pay was 27K, of course that doesn't count per diem. My hourly rate was around $37, I did one month of high speeds and two months of reserve, every other month I broke guarantee. I don't pick up open time because 1.) I have a life and 2.) with my schedule I always had min days off so it was almost impossible to pick up more flying. I think people are lying to you about what they made.
I'm at Skywest. I can only pull up info back to 2003, and that was the last year I was an FO, but my my W2 shows over 33k and that was eight years ago. I would have been on year 3 to 4 on the payscale at that time. Take into consideration that W2 wages don't show pretax items such as insurance and 401K deductions. And while perdiem shouldn't be counted as income, all togeather it was over 41K that year.
Currently, unless you call in sick for a holiday. The absolute minimum amount of credit hours you'd recive at SkyWest in your second year is 931.8. Multiply that by 36.6 and it's $34,103.