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Originally Posted by avi8er
for you to make over 350k as a 7 year FO you wold need to average over 180 trips a month on 8th year pay rate. No doubt is doable in the current environment with all the ja and premium, but that also means you are working your ass off and working on your days off. I never understood the W2 argument. Why would anyone gloat about working more to get pay equal or more with our peers?
You really don't understand the W2 argument? Here, let me help you understand it better.
Can you tell the difference between these:
1) An Air Force retiree with Tricare and retirement who sees this as a cush retirement gig and has no need to pick up any extra flying.
2) A pilot who comes from a very well-to-do family and sees our retirement as nothing but some extra change due to inheritance.
3) A regional pilot who lived on PBJ and ramen for years in the regionals, who's now in his/her 50's with maybe a couple hundred grand in 401k who has a lot of catching up to do.
4) A pilot from a defunct airline who lost his/her A-plan and had to use the old 401k to survive.
5) A pilot who's looking at his/her kids and saying I don't want to saddle them with the insane college debt.
6) A pilot who's young, single, with no kids, no debt, whose career took him/her from zero to hero in a few short years and who now just loves to cruise the world.
7) A corporate pilot who makes very good money, but wants some job security and worries that the pay cut may be too steep.
This list is nowhere near conclusive.
APC figures for pay are not even remotely accurate. Not here anyway. I've been averaging 150 TFP since I started here. This year, my average is 165 TFP. During the pandemic, I averaged 155 TFP. This stuff matters to people and this data helps people make important life decisions. You may put priorities on smelling the roses and traveling the world who would be happy to fly only one trip per month. Others want to pay for their kids college or get caught up with retirement and aren't afraid to do so.
Make sense now?