I don't disagree that you were paid 5 hrs for SCC. What I doubt is that it was ABOVE reserve guarantee.

If you look at the top of the pay statement it will say PAY/CRD: 80:00. Then lower you will see a subtotal line. On that add the FLT HRS & CRD HRS and the RES Guarantee together and it will equal the PAY/CRD at the top. Any pay for GS/IA/Dist training will be in the rows just below. I'd say that if your RES Guarantee is 0 then your SCC pay would be extra.

Now if it adds up differently for you I say good on you.

I flew about 20 hours of credit and had 12 hours of the training pay and was given 5 short calls for the month. Reserve guarantee that month was 74. I was paid for 79.

The difference is the training pay. If you put the numbers in the reserve pay calculator you will most likely get the 79 answer.

This is one of three things:

1. Great and surprising news that every reserve-sitter can rejoice in

2. An unfortunate tease by payroll that will quickly unwind

3. An ingenious ploy by an anonymous poster to get fellow reserve-sitters to request short calls so said poster won't be assigned them! :)

3 is the answer...You get paid for that 1 hour SCC but your reserve guarantee pay goes down by 1 hour.