Left Seat W2's

[jparks]

2003-No weekends No overnights
--$28,545.95
flight instructor for a university
2004-every weekend most overnights
--$21,233.21 including per diem!
finally got that airline dream job and a $725.00 monthly student loan repayment

HA HA

CNN can stick this in their top 10 money making careers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do we put up with it, I don't know.

 

[gearup5]

45000 5year Capt at a soon to be closed regional excluding perdiem.Our wages should make the nightly news not that 20 year widebody Captain. I wonder if people would be so eager to get on airplanes nowing the pilot were making as little as we all do.

 

[capt. megadeth]

45000 5year Capt at a soon to be closed regional excluding perdiem.Our wages should make the nightly news not that 20 year widebody Captain. I wonder if people would be so eager to get on airplanes nowing the pilot were making as little as we all do.

I am sure they don't give a frog's fat a$$. But you know what? You better be dang perfect when you have to make that belly landing. That's why I can only handle saying "bye thanks" for like 1 minute and then I go back to the cockpit.

 

[wahoo250]

"AirTran . . . . Very Lazy 3rd yr FO . . . . . 556 hrs block . . . . $67K

Projection for 2006 . . . . . Very Lazy 4th yr CA . . . . . .$120K"


....Hey no fair, you cant post that here! Anything above 100 go to the other board!

 

[Ty Webb]

....Hey no fair, you cant post that here! Anything above 100 go to the other board!

Hey . . . They sent me over here!

heh-heh.

 

[captain caveman]

Most of you guys must be including perdiem. Perdiem is not salary. If more of us realized this we might demand better compensation.

I took a pay cut going from the ATR $63/hr to the CRJ700 $70/hr. I am more junior and can not manipiulate my schedule as well. 'Can't say that I miss much more about the ATR though, 'xept the folks.

2003 W2 79,XXX 975 hours
2004 W2 64,XXX 5XX hours

I don't fly for Eagle BTW.

 

[BankAccount=0$]

2004 TabExpress 4 month "Captain" -$45,000This is not including housing, books, lunch for my Co-captains, or for the really cool looking RJ stickers on my flight bag. Next year I'm hoping to return to the black after I get my new job with a major...........

 

[DetoXJ]

I realize that "non-tax" Per diem doesn't go into line 1, 3 or 5 on your W-2 but it is still certainly "income" I made almost $4000 tax free in per diem last year and for me to clear $4000 I need to net almost $6000. No matter what field you work in, you have to eat. I don't spend any more $$ on eating just because I'm a pilot. I come out way ahead on my per diem and it's up to you how you want to spend for food on the road. Typical day ....... Brakfast = Free, Lunch = $1.99 protien bar + Banana I stole from the hotels free breakfast, Dinner = $10. Company pays me $36 a day and I don't come close to spending it. All other professions have to pay for eating and they don't get any per diem.

 

[LarryinTN]

Since different airlines pay per diem differently it makes sense to include it in these comparisons.

 

[Dodge]

41K for a 5+ year Mesaba FO.