View Poll Results: I am choosing an airline and 1st year pay is:
a MAJOR factor.
43
21.72%
an IMPORTANT factor.
86
43.43%
a MINOR factor.
47
23.74%
NOT a factor.
22
11.11%
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Does first year pay matter?
07-22-2015 | 04:00 PM
#23
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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.
07-23-2015 | 05:13 AM
#24
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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.
07-23-2015 | 07:46 AM
#26
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07-23-2015 | 09:05 AM
#27
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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.
07-23-2015 | 10:06 AM
#28
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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
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
07-23-2015 | 12:17 PM
#30
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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.
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