per diem?
 

How is per diem paid out? Specifically, when does the per diem pay clock start and end?

well its for the whole month, day trips are taxed, usually paid with overs on the 16th (at xjt anyway) for me its been around 600 a month, and thats net, so it really helps a lot

The per diem clock starts at report time for a trip and ends at release time for that trip. So if my report time is 10am on the 14th and release is 4pm on the 17th it would look like this:

14hrs on the 14th
24hrs on the 15th
24hrs on the 16th
16hrs on the 17th

For a total of 78hrs of per diem. That money is tax free and shows up on one of your pay checks, depending on how your company's payroll works.

Per diem is different for every carrier dependent upon respective contract. My current employer pays $1.xx per hour for every hour that you are on duty. Duty time, as it relates to per diem (in this case), starts when you check in -but no earlier than fifteen minutes before check in time - and ends fifteen minutes after the reported "in" time (in the gate at the end of the trip).

There is also a difference between taxable and non-taxable per diem. If I understand it correctly, per diem earned on a trip where you overnight - ie, wake up or go to sleep out of domicile - is non-taxable. However, if you don't overnight then your per diem is taxable. Several carriers do not pay per diem if you do not overnight.

As to how it is paid out, in my case, it is added to our paycheck monthly. We are paid on the first and sixteenth and per diem is added to the mid month check for the previous month. Of course this could be different for various carriers.

In my case per diem is to pay for food and drinks while on the road. The company pays for hotel and transport between the airport and the hotel. In some cases there is a car provided, but mostly it means the hotel shuttle and your feet get you about unless you pay for a cab out of your own pocket.

It does add up... Can be a couple hundred dollars per month.

The sad part is this; I know it's not "income", but for a newhire regional FO, it sometime can account for about 1/4-1/3 of you total take home pay.

I hear UPS, and FedEx guys make Bonkers kinda cash in Perdiem:cool:

At AWAC we get per diem from the checkin time to the checkout time at our domicile. Paid on the 15th I believe..

What about Mesaba?