Soo which regional has the highest first year pay?

Horizon. Although some endeavor people may chime in claiming they are the greatest.

From a financial planning perspective of total life time earnings what ever gets you X PIC turbine time to meet minimums at a major should be the only deciding point. A career is a lot of years and sometimes early sacrifices pay very large dividends.

I do in fact love chasing women. I have no school or training debt and a little family money, I'll be ok on first year pay.

Compass has a 10,000 signing bonus. 25.50/ hr + 10k. Endeavor is up there too with their 20k retention.

Horizon first year is $30/ hour.
Endeavor is $25/hour + $20,000/year bonus.
Not "claiming " anything, but it's hard to argue with numbers, you can like it or lump it, I don't care.

Turbine PIC isn't a bad thing to have, but FOs are getting hired at the majors with zero TPIC time. That's a fact.

First year pay only matters if your going to be there one year :) big picture is first year your still paying your dues, so look at it like this, how much would you have to pay to rent a crj, q400 ect per hour to get yout 1000 hrs ? Add that to your pay and thats what your making an hour :)

So, you aren't an commuter FO?

LOL

I am sure there are exceptions but for the most part you are going to need some total time and PIC time to be competitive. Whatever gets you marketable the fastest drives the total financial decision. Better to suffer for 2-3 years when you are young and move on to real money/benefits than spend a decade at moderately higher salary. Again I am only talking from a pure life time earnings standpoint.