Soverytired
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For the second time... RAH pays $400 a week tax free per diem for the first four weeks. Just keep making excuses if it makes yourself feel better...
In other words, $1600/mo tax free, or $19,200/yr if you managed to stretch your training out a bit.
Considering the tax free nature of the renumeration, this is actually a far better take-home salary than nearly all fo's at all regionals get their first year, Mesa included.
To be fair, he dodged a furlough. Nevertheless, I personally think it would have been better to take a risk and make the jump anyway. There may have been recall rights, pilots who are unemployed are highly motivated to find other jobs and tend to do so, and Mesa would have you back (shudder).
If you wait for the "perfect" opportunity, you WILL be a Mesa lifer. The longer you stay, the harder it will be to leave.