I can tell you first hand 100k is BS!!

thats what i thought, looking at the payscale... maybe in 20 years with lots of overtime and including per diem

Anybody trying to talk you into Mesa isn't your friend. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else.

To gross $100,000:

6th year CR9 CA would have to credit over 119 hours each month of that fiscal year.
6th year E145 CA would have to credit over 140 hours respectively.

Great point, funny how mgt. would probably try and make you fly 140 hrs. a month if they could. Is mesa 121 legal times or exempted to part 135 allowed hrs. a month?

I also just recalled that Mesa pays average block, not block or better. I just dont see how any Mesa employee could realistically credit 100+

The correct answer is 100k is chump change! News flash you have to finance your retirement nowadays. So out of the 100k that you won’t make, 30k will go to the gov as income tax, now you have 70k. To fund your retirement you need to contribute the max of 15k to your 401k, now you have 55k. 55/12= 4583 per month so, a avg house will run you about 2000(assuming you want to live in a relatively safe area) of your 4583, now you have 2583, figure about 500 for gas, 200 for car insurance, 500 for car payments, 200 for utilities, 150 for cell phones, 500 for food, student loans 300, and 250 on whatever else. Now you are out of money until next month.

My father-in-law said his gas bill was 2800 dollars last month alone. He said he needs at least 10k a month just to get by, and he is pretty tight with his cash and lives in a modest house and drives avg vehicles.

Your parents could get by on 60k because they bought their house in 1980 for 70k and ad pay a 500 dollar a month mortgage.

My point is, that with a family 100k is just getting by.

Wow! You guys spend a lot.

No kidding.

I have a wife and 4 girls under age 10. We are living off of 2000 a month

400 - rent
325 - car
300 - gas
300 - electricity
500 - necessities (food, pampers, liquor, cigarettes )
200 - extra stuff.

We work for a school district, so our retirement is automatically taken out.

I figures since i is educated and i work, i should afford a normal life style and not have to live in a two bedroom apt and have no retirement.