Spirit 2/3 yr FO

$146,000

$127,500
$12,500 company 401K contribution
$6000 Per Diem
$0 Profit Sharing

Live in FL base
Picked up 4 premium trips
2 months old contract
10 months new contract
15-16 days off each month
2 months reserve (by choice)
I could be working more but choose not to
Was on track to do a little better but things have
slowed down a bit lately

PM me i'd be glad to send you a snap shot of my final pay stub that come's on the 8th of Jan to prove it. Oh and yeah I VDA. Before you say anything else I even did one month where I did a single trip for straight pay.... you mad? Bet you think i'm a Juicer, and i'm helping the operation.... only thing i'm helping is my bank account by being smart. And let's use our heads here just for a second. Before PTO sell back went away you needed 100+ to sell back. I am year 1. It takes 10 months with no sick calls to get to 100 hrs of PTO, so no I didn't sell back anything.

I think your 12/20 paystub is your 24th paystub and final one of the year. Jan 8 I think goes towards 2019 earnings.

Very true, but for the sake of this forum and 2018 earnings that check represents our big check from 12/2018. We can add the two together to satisfy anyone who is doubting the numbers I put fourth for anyone who is out there (considering not to come here and wait for a real major) to come calling.... it would be a financial mistake to stay at a regional over coming here IMO.

AS FO at approximately 9 months year 1.
3 months of reserve, blocked 760 hours and averaged 15 days off once I held a line.

25 hours at 1.5

Gross 105k
Per diem 5k
401k ~14k

And every year we also have the complete opposite of #@$ measuring. Every time a Regional guy participates in this thread and posts their salary, we get the measuring of how deep the snow was and how long others had to walk others had to their first Regional job.

Uphill and headwind both ways

At least you had shoes.

You kids don't know how bad we had it! You could buy a 3 bedroom 2 bath home in a nice neighborhood for 30k!!

I didn’t include Dec 18 earnings in my totals. Because that is paid in 2019. It’s on a separate W2. So I’ve never counted it. YMMV