Big Beer Belly
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WhiteCloud said:So how do you figure that? They also get the opportunity to work 5 more years at at the top of the salary scale. Not everybody want to fly past 60 either or even 55 for that matter. Some get out at the first opportunity. Some move to management and some die. Even if they do lose some money they'll still be making pretty good money and have better schedules at the top of the FO list. If it's about safety after 60 I'm open for discussion. If it's about some FO's personal gain then it's an artificial system that needs to go away.
Say you are 40 now and delay your upgrade to 45. In those 5 years you would lose 100k/yr (salary and B-fund) at my airline. I don't have a FV calculator handy at the moment, but at 45 you would have given up approx 700k by not upgrading. 700k over 20 yrs (age 45-65) at market 50 yr avg of 10% (actually 10.3%, but we'll round) return would yield approx $5.5 MILLION!
You will need to be paid in excess of $1 MILLION/yr by your airline from age 60-65 to come close to breaking even!
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