Captain pay scale
 

Does your regional use true seniority (longevity) when determining your pay grade? Or does your company use the date of upgrade to begin said pay scale?
ie: Your true seniority is 5 years and you upgrade at year 3. Does your pay reflect that of a 5 year captain or a 2 year captain?

Thanks

most use total longevity.....whatever your union negotiates though.

Which ones do not?

Most contracts work like this. In your example (at 5 years of service) you would receive $75.77 per flight hour.

Years:
0 to 1= $ XX.XX
1 to 2= $ XX.XX
2 to 3= $ XX.XX
3 to 4= $ XX.XX
4 to 5= $ XX.XX
5 to 6= $ 75.77

I'm not aware of any carrier that resets for upgrade, it is traditionally always your total longevity date that determines where you 'slide into' the payscale when you upgrade. So an 8yr FO that upgrades would then be an 8yr CA immediately upon upgrading.

VX I believe...

Eagle is in the middle of a pay banding based on seniority over what airframe you fly, but you pay step is based on your total longevity.

Didn't Pinnacle just vote this in?

Westjet is at least one Canadian carrier does this....as that's one I would like to fly for in the future. Not sure if that's the norm in Canada though.

9E management wanted it initially but it was eventually taken off the table

thanks guys

Instead we maxed out our FO's at 34000/yr with no more premium pay to help with the bills.

ZK is total longevity.

I'm rocking $30 an hour on 3rd year Captain pay! I feel so blessed.

Not anymore. I don't think any US carriers do a longevity pay reset anymore.

Not a US carrier, but I think Cathay does that.