GoJet... Will it ruin my career?

[PBRstreetgang]

If you are asking, you already kow the answer.

 

[AeroDork]

One of my first flight students is now managing a Hawker and making close to six figures/year with great benefits and an awesome company. They're now looking at bringing on a mid-size to large cabin airframe.

Sounds like your friend's company isn't too awesome. Someone managing a Hawker should be making well over six figures.

 

[GLEXPilot]

Sounds like your friend's company isn't too awesome. Someone managing a Hawker should be making well over six figures.

Here are the NBAA Hawker numbers, please tell me how you assume he should be getting well above 6 figures?

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2012 NBAA Salary Survey:
(National Average, Part 91 only)

Captain - Jet III (20k < 45k lbs)
Base Salary (as of Jan 1, 2012)
Average: $100,685

25% Quartile: $89,250
Median (50%): $100,000
75% Quartile: $111,444
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[AeroDork]

Here are the NBAA Hawker numbers, please tell me how you assume he should be getting well above 6 figures?

One of my first flight students is now managing a Hawker and making close to six figures/year...

Try Chief Pilot or Department Manager numbers if he's MANAGING the airplane.

 

[GLEXPilot]

Try Chief Pilot or Department Manager numbers if he's MANAGING the airplane.

What do you think his lay should be? I don't really know the management numbers for a hawker. I am more familiar with the globals, g5s and bbj numbers.

 

[AeroDork]

$125,000 minimum if he's managing everything.

 

[GLEXPilot]

$125,000 minimum if he's managing everything.

So then he is being significantly under paid. I change my position, his friend works for a crappy place at least as far as pay is concerned.

 

[theo]

So then he is being significantly under paid. I change my position, his friend works for a crappy place at least as far as pay is concerned.

I bet if you ask him to trade jobs he will say no

 

[GLEXPilot]

I bet if you ask him to trade jobs he will say no

Good for him then. I just always like to be paid at least the average for my equipment, plus have a great QOL. I know our guys are all making a little over 200K a year huge year end bonus and working an average of 75 days a year, with job security that is pretty great (I.E. if anything happens to the boss each employee gets 15 years of pay, closing of the department results in the same thing) only problem with my job is having to live on the west coast while my family is from the east coast.

 

[AeroDork]

(I.E. if anything happens to the boss each employee gets 15 years of pay, closing of the department results in the same thing)

ALPA needs to hire whoever negotiated that deal. Wow! :beer:

 

[GLEXPilot]

ALPA needs to hire whoever negotiated that deal. Wow! :beer:

It was here when I got here, just think that the owner appreciates the guys who fly him and his family around the world safely, and once he gets people he likes he does not want to see them go.

 

[VA AV8R]

We have a GoJets pilot in my department, came in with 1100 hours PIC turbine, started him off at 175K a year and sent him out for his 60K Global Express type rating, now 3 years later he is making 210K a year flying about 70 days a year, and all because he had his 1000 PIC turbine.

Wow. I'm happy for you, and the rest of your co-workers but you talk as though there are more than a handful of jobs out there just waiting to be scooped up.

 

[GLEXPilot]

Wow. I'm happy for you, and the rest of your co-workers but you talk as though there are more than a handful of jobs out there just waiting to be scooped up.

Honestly there are. You just have to know where to look.

 

[flyboyike]

Honestly there are. You just have to know where to look.

Nobody's saying there aren't, it's just that the number of such positions is in the tens.

 

[GLEXPilot]

Nobody's saying there aren't, it's just that the number of such positions is in the tens.

In the hundreds, but yes a small percentage of the total pilot jobs.