Reality Check
#1
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Joined APC: Jul 2019
Posts: 5
Reality Check
Hello all,
Long time lurker, and first time poster. I was recently hired and offered a class date for November. I am currently employed with a carrier that is based in Europe. I have a home and family living in Europe. I live a very comfortable life right now.
I am here to ask few questions and prepare my self for the upcoming transition. I must acknowledge that it has been my dream to be a part of Southwest and I am blessed to have gotten closer to it. However, I am also nervous of the following:
1. Training pay
2. 1st year pay
3. Reserve and QOL.
I have been preparing my self and my wife for this transition. What I would like to know is some realistic numbers for both pay, and day off. How much money can I realistically make if I were to bust my behind in year 1? How many minimum days can I have off during reserve period? I understand and read it is around 15.
Please, share your experience, strategies, and technics to cope with the financial transition, at least for the first year. I do plan to move back to U.S and also in base, once I am awarded the base I seek (either BWI or LAS).
Thank you in advance,
Much Luv.
Long time lurker, and first time poster. I was recently hired and offered a class date for November. I am currently employed with a carrier that is based in Europe. I have a home and family living in Europe. I live a very comfortable life right now.
I am here to ask few questions and prepare my self for the upcoming transition. I must acknowledge that it has been my dream to be a part of Southwest and I am blessed to have gotten closer to it. However, I am also nervous of the following:
1. Training pay
2. 1st year pay
3. Reserve and QOL.
I have been preparing my self and my wife for this transition. What I would like to know is some realistic numbers for both pay, and day off. How much money can I realistically make if I were to bust my behind in year 1? How many minimum days can I have off during reserve period? I understand and read it is around 15.
Please, share your experience, strategies, and technics to cope with the financial transition, at least for the first year. I do plan to move back to U.S and also in base, once I am awarded the base I seek (either BWI or LAS).
Thank you in advance,
Much Luv.
#2
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2017
Posts: 659
Hello all,
Long time lurker, and first time poster. I was recently hired and offered a class date for November. I am currently employed with a carrier that is based in Europe. I have a home and family living in Europe. I live a very comfortable life right now.
I am here to ask few questions and prepare my self for the upcoming transition. I must acknowledge that it has been my dream to be a part of Southwest and I am blessed to have gotten closer to it. However, I am also nervous of the following:
1. Training pay
2. 1st year pay
3. Reserve and QOL.
I have been preparing my self and my wife for this transition. What I would like to know is some realistic numbers for both pay, and day off. How much money can I realistically make if I were to bust my behind in year 1? How many minimum days can I have off during reserve period? I understand and read it is around 15.
Please, share your experience, strategies, and technics to cope with the financial transition, at least for the first year. I do plan to move back to U.S and also in base, once I am awarded the base I seek (either BWI or LAS).
Thank you in advance,
Much Luv.
Long time lurker, and first time poster. I was recently hired and offered a class date for November. I am currently employed with a carrier that is based in Europe. I have a home and family living in Europe. I live a very comfortable life right now.
I am here to ask few questions and prepare my self for the upcoming transition. I must acknowledge that it has been my dream to be a part of Southwest and I am blessed to have gotten closer to it. However, I am also nervous of the following:
1. Training pay
2. 1st year pay
3. Reserve and QOL.
I have been preparing my self and my wife for this transition. What I would like to know is some realistic numbers for both pay, and day off. How much money can I realistically make if I were to bust my behind in year 1? How many minimum days can I have off during reserve period? I understand and read it is around 15.
Please, share your experience, strategies, and technics to cope with the financial transition, at least for the first year. I do plan to move back to U.S and also in base, once I am awarded the base I seek (either BWI or LAS).
Thank you in advance,
Much Luv.
You’ll likely be able to get BWI out of training, and LAS shortly after.
#3
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2016
Posts: 252
73.56/tfp x 100 tfp/month on reserve= $7356/ month gross. Plus $400/ month per diem. Plus 15% into your 401k is another $1103 per month. $93k year one before taxes, not including $13.2k in your 401k.
Training is year one pay at the guarantee of 87 or 89 tfp/month. Lasts through IOE, total of about 2 months.
100 tfp per month is a reasonable assumption on a pure reserve line, with a fly preference. That’s picking up nothing extra (at second year rates of $106.37/tfp). At least 15 days per month off. Working in 3 to 4 day blocks, with 3 to 4 day blocks off.
You’ll likely get BWI right out of training. LAS shortly after.
Hope that helps. Sounds like a big transition. If you do make the jump here, Welcome!
Training is year one pay at the guarantee of 87 or 89 tfp/month. Lasts through IOE, total of about 2 months.
100 tfp per month is a reasonable assumption on a pure reserve line, with a fly preference. That’s picking up nothing extra (at second year rates of $106.37/tfp). At least 15 days per month off. Working in 3 to 4 day blocks, with 3 to 4 day blocks off.
You’ll likely get BWI right out of training. LAS shortly after.
Hope that helps. Sounds like a big transition. If you do make the jump here, Welcome!
#4
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2009
Position: 737 right
Posts: 285
I made $100,000 my first year and will make around $150,000 on second year pay. I also got profit sharing for my first year it was around $10,000 put into a seperate 401k, I started in late November. The QOL was pretty good my first year and continues to get better.
#5
New guy with fancy helmet
Joined APC: Jun 2018
Posts: 64
Great!
That’s good news!
#6
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Joined APC: Mar 2017
Posts: 588
Similar experience for me as well
#9
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2015
Posts: 123
I hustled as much as I could because I took a large pay reduction in coming here for a very large upside... down the line. I earned $116K in my first year and will do around $180K in my second year if I continue flying how I am now, which I see no reason why I shouldn’t. At this schedule I normally have 10-12 days off per month, sometimes more depending on how things work out. 9 days off has been my worst. This figure doesn’t include 401K and profit sharing.
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