Regional Pay Rates
#11
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I think you fail to see that block pay isn't everything. While the pay scales on here are benneficial, there are things like trip/duty rigs, block or better, healthcare bennefits, 401 match, etc which are not accounted for. If they were, it would be easier to see why I would have made less in my first year at TSA than a first year FO at skywest who makes $3 per hour less than I did.
Yes, the bar needs to be raised. However I think too many people fail to realize that there are other aspects to the pay picture that play a HUGE roll.
Yes, the bar needs to be raised. However I think too many people fail to realize that there are other aspects to the pay picture that play a HUGE roll.
iahfly,
You are attempting to deliberately mislead people...ie you are LYING. Hourly rates taken alone are meaningless, as you well know.
Nobody at mesa gets paid more than a SKW pilot, for an equivelant seat and longevity. Mesa pilots spend a lot of duty time not getting paid where SKW pilots do get paid. SKW pilots also get significant bonuses after the two-year mark. SKW pilots also get, on average, 14-16 days off. Mesa is more like 10-12 (8 for reserves).
I'm not blowing the SKW horn here, it's just that I can only speak specifically about those two companies. I'm sure your numbers are equally misleading for other carriers as well.
You are attempting to deliberately mislead people...ie you are LYING. Hourly rates taken alone are meaningless, as you well know.
Nobody at mesa gets paid more than a SKW pilot, for an equivelant seat and longevity. Mesa pilots spend a lot of duty time not getting paid where SKW pilots do get paid. SKW pilots also get significant bonuses after the two-year mark. SKW pilots also get, on average, 14-16 days off. Mesa is more like 10-12 (8 for reserves).
I'm not blowing the SKW horn here, it's just that I can only speak specifically about those two companies. I'm sure your numbers are equally misleading for other carriers as well.
I totally agree about rigs. I am not sure what happened to my disclaimer at the beginning of the post (saying I know hourly rates are not everything), but I do agree that hourly rates are not everything.
However, they are definately a huge part of your total earnings.
As for rigs, it seems to me like everyone should have atleast:
4:1 trip rig
2:1 duty rig
100% deadhead pay
100% cancellation pay
Minimum day pay (3-4 hours)
Some sort of OT for 12+ hour duty or CDO's
75 hour monthly guarantee
I know some places don't have these (Compass only 75% deadhead, Mesa basically has no cancellation pay, Trans States has 70 hour reserve guarentee). So if your airline does not have these, then get them.
But still look at those rates!
However, they are definately a huge part of your total earnings.
As for rigs, it seems to me like everyone should have atleast:
4:1 trip rig
2:1 duty rig
100% deadhead pay
100% cancellation pay
Minimum day pay (3-4 hours)
Some sort of OT for 12+ hour duty or CDO's
75 hour monthly guarantee
I know some places don't have these (Compass only 75% deadhead, Mesa basically has no cancellation pay, Trans States has 70 hour reserve guarentee). So if your airline does not have these, then get them.
But still look at those rates!
and yet all that can be gone when you wake up in the morning. you are right, hourly salary isn't everything. and everything else is really nothing if its not in a contract. its all good till the gravy train slows down...
#12
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Joined APC: Apr 2007
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I've had a really lousy paying month...only 14 days off and a hair under 110 hours credit. FWIW, at Trans States I could have been lucky to have 11 days and 90 credit.
I don't think there is a good way to put entire compensation into one, easy-to-swallow pill for those un-informed.
I don't think there is a good way to put entire compensation into one, easy-to-swallow pill for those un-informed.
#13
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Joined APC: May 2006
Position: Student Pilot
Posts: 849
I've credited less than 100 hrs only once since I was hired last spring. Usually my pay credit is at least about 25 more than the block, but I actually had two months where my credit was 62-64 more than block.
I do agree work rules matter a ton when it comes to pay as much as the hourly pay itself... it just makes me wonder, if I can work the system this well at a place like Colgan.. how much more I could be crediting at a better regional..................
#14
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Joined APC: Nov 2005
Position: MD80
Posts: 1,111
I've had a really lousy paying month...only 14 days off and a hair under 110 hours credit. FWIW, at Trans States I could have been lucky to have 11 days and 90 credit.
I don't think there is a good way to put entire compensation into one, easy-to-swallow pill for those un-informed.
I don't think there is a good way to put entire compensation into one, easy-to-swallow pill for those un-informed.
#15
Congratulations, you still make 19 per hour and as much as a elementary school busdriver that took a 2 week course on driving a bus. Point is that we should be raising our pay. 1st year pay at a regional should be at least 40 and captain 80. It's still hard for people to comprehend when I tell them that airline pilots make equivalent to minimum wage starting out.
Don't see why one should have to take a pay cut when you leave a good CFI job to go to a regional. It makes no sense whatsoever. $40 an hour seems like a perfectly reasonable first year pay.
#16
And no year five Captains at Comair either. Juniorest Captain is a year 6 guy. But he's only on year five pay due to a one-year longevity penalty included in the Concessionary agreement.
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