SWA Pay Raise...Congratulations!

[Hobiehawker]

An SWA friend sent me the pay scale effective 9/1/05 due to their profitability bonus. They will receive a 4.76 percent raise.

For some reason I am unable to cut and paste the scale. I'm sure someone will soon.

 

[TR4A]

An SWA friend sent me the pay scale effective 9/1/05 due to their profitability bonus. They will receive a 4.76 percent raise.

For some reason I am unable to cut and paste the scale. I'm sure someone will soon.

9/1/2005 Pay Rates per Trip (to get approximate hourly multiply by 1.14)

Top captain pay would be about $190.40/Hour

Year Capt FO
12 $167.02 $110.22
11 $165.22 $109.04
10 $163.39 $107.85
9 $161.61 $106.67
8 $159.81 $105.46
7 $158.00 $104.28
6 $156.21 $103.09
5 $154.28 $100.28
4 $152.57 $91.56
3 $150.79 $82.93
2 $148.98 $74.49
1 $147.19 $44.15

 

[SWA/FO]

awesome! What a great deal!!!

 

[stonewall]

Sweet....good for SWA!

Now, according to the message I just got from our MEC, FDX Express scored a net profit of around $771.5M for 04 (#2 of the top 25). SWA had a net profit of $313M (#11/25).

Ya'll get a "profitability bonus" of almost 5%, and we got an "offer" of 3%. Something doesn't make sense to this caveman pilot. FDX needs to pony up.

My negotiating committee speaks for me.

 

[wnplt]

Not to change the subject but...

I still think the trip rate to hourly conversion isn't quite right. I normally fly about 100 trips a month which is about 80 hours a month block. That equates to 960 hours a year which most airlines figure is average pay wise. So Im on 3rd year pay at 82.93 come September, times(X) 100 trips for pay gives 8293 per month divided by 80 block hours gives more like a hourly rate of 103.66 instead of the 1.14 conversion of 94.54 per hour. Am I missing something here or does this make more sense?

Thanks for any insight...

 

[cforst513]

i've got almost 54 TT, 0 multi, 0 turbine PIC... where do i send my resume?

 

[Mr Hat]

That is truly amazing, SW continues to blow me away. I hope the DB goes my way in Aug.
Congrats guys, I am sure you deserve it!

 

[AlbieF15]

Magnum,

I was just thinking the same thing. I get paperwork in the mail about how the "purple promise" has returned so much for the company this year (GREAT!--I love this company). However, the contrast with the SWA raise is plain as day.

My negotiating committe speaks for me, too.

 

[TR4A]

I still think the trip rate to hourly conversion isn't quite right.

Looking at the OAK bid lines for August the lowest is 1.13 and the highest is 1.29. I have a line that is 1.28. It has a deadhead at the end of evey 3-say that pays 2.4 TFP and is 2:05 hours. If you add in the DH flight time of 8:20 (2:05 X 4) to my flight time of my line I would have 82:20 for the month. 95.2 TFP / 82:20 hours = 1.1516 TFP/Hour. So if you factor in the deadhead time I would be making $192.34/hour for the month of August

 

[PurpleTail]

I normally fly about 100 trips a month which is about 80 hours a month block.

Does 1 trip=1 leg? If so, if you work 15 on/15 off and fly 5 legs a day that is about 75 trips a month. To get 100 that would be 20 ON and 10 off at 5 legs a day...ouch! I am not very familiar with SWA pay structure so I could be missing something.

Congrats on the raise, you guys/gals are an awesome bunch!