If you're a regional pilot that goes the ANG route, how does pay at your regional work while you're on duty? Do you still get min guarantee?

 

Most places wil subtract 1/30-ish your guarantee per day out on Mil Leave.

 

Yes, pretty much all airlines do this.

Getting paid fr your civilian job while on reserve duty (aka double dipping) is perk generally reserved for civil servants, and a very few private sector employees.

 

My airline (regional) has a guarantee of 75 hrs/month. Each Mil day not available to the airline takes 2.5 hrs away from the 75, for reserve lines. I think that's pretty typical.

Once you gain some seniority and are holding an actual line, it gets more complicated. Some of your scheduled airline trips can be "pay protected" by the airline, depending on how it's scheduled. With a hard line, you can also be more selective about where to drop mil leave in order to maximize your pay. For instance, if you work your mil duty on days not scheduled at the airline, you incur no loss of pay..just loss of family time..

 

You don't have to give up airline pay for ANG pay. You can do the ANG on your days off. I never gave up airline pay for ANG pay except for the two week deployments. But even then I'd get up to 70 hrs of airline pay and two weeks of AD.

 

Being non-mil, what do you guys do on a drill day if your not flying?

 

Mandatory annual/quarterly training that everyone hates.

It is also usually the only time per quarter the entire unit will be together. So, to build eprit de corps and unit cohesion, the Commander gives a spiel.

After hours, usually a group party or picnic....not on the tax-payer's dime.

 

And don't forget all the fun of getting ready for an ORI!

Or as we called it, "Counting our Underpants and Practicing Bleeding"!

One time they made us sit in school busses...parked school busses...for 5 hours! This was to "Simulate" evacuating our base and going to our back up base, which was a 5 hour drive away! When we complained about it, the Boss said, "Hey, at least I didn't make you wear the Chem gear!"

This was long before smart phones and even before Al Gore invented the Internet, so there was NOTHING to do in the buses but sweat.

 

72 TPs? Are you navy?

 

I know this thread is old, but as an O-4 with a pay date of Nov 2002, I get $254.69 per RUTA/AFTP before tax (claiming married with no exemptions). After tax, I get $196.32 before SGLI and my TSP contribution. So 96 pay days a year is worth $24,450.24 or $18,846.72 annually. Spread that out monthly and that's $1,570.56 per month.

Add to that having to go to the sim twice per year if you're at a non-collocated sim unit and that's 10 days of AT worth about $2,500 take home.

Any other AT you get is icing on the cake at $253 per day after tax with BAH-II.

Title 10 days for me are worth $274 after tax with the higher BAH-I rate.

After going to Guam for 20 some odd days, pulling some alert, going to sim training twice, going to AIS for two weeks and 84 RUTA/AFTP (I'm an ART so I get 36 FTP's instead of 48), I grossed about $43,000 last year in mil pay. Took home somewhere in the low to mid $30's. Ain't a bad part-time gig, especially when you pin on O-5 And ride it out until they decide to kick you out.