Is it just me or do we all need to work for SW? Seems like all the SW guys make big $$$

I don't need to work for them.

FEDEX
MD11 FO/12 years
182 block hours (normal)
$260 gross (not counting per diem, A/B plan)
approx 100 days worked, 96 nights spent away
live in base
worked some 150% trips Nov/Dec

So the profit sharing alone at DAL is more than first year regional FOs make for their entire income... this industry is so effed up.

$1,428/hr. Winner winner chicken dinner. Nice work

1) Delta
2) FO
3) 757/767
4) 2nd/3rd year pay
5) Average about 10-12 work days per month. Three days of premium pay for the year. Average line award was 16-17 days off and then some creative trading/personal drops. What can I say, I've been enjoying the time off :D
6) About 10-12 overnights per month. Mostly domestic with roughly one Europe trip per month. I'm a low-to-mid seniority commuter and average 2 extra nights away per month, usually on the front end.
7) Company says 572 block hours flown.
8) No idea.
9) $165K Gross including $19.2K Profit Sharing and $6K Per Diem.
10) $25.4K Company 401K Contribution

Total compensation: $190,400. Not bad for part time work! ($184.5 if you don't count per diem).

It's always been like that. That's why the regionals have always been considering by most to be time building stepping stones and not careers
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Southwest Slacker
1mo 1st yr/ 11mo 2nd yr
Drive 2 hr to base
No pick up
Worked about 135 days
Block 699hrs
Gross $121500
Bfund $16200
Per Diem $5600

You can have my position there along with the dozen plus who will be resigning in the next 30 days

Sorry to doubt you, but after looking at these numbers and doing calculations I find the $14K in per diem a stretch and not likely. IF you worked 19 days per month and did ONLY international flying and assuming full 24-hour per diem days start-to-finish, that would amount to about $15,500 in per diem. That's literally working with zero life.

Drops from there doing domestic/Canada and considering we don't actually get per diem for 0000-2359 X 4 days on a four-day trip. Now international if you included the international override, which is NOT per diem, then I could see those numbers being what you stated.