How does pilot pay work?

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12-30-2005, 12:22 PM

aircanada_addict

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How does pilot pay work?

I was playing with the pay calculator,and wondering what the following terms ment..
Credit Time
Bid periods,and the precentige thing below it......

And how does pilot pay work,like if your on a 777,on a 9hr + flight to,europe,or australia or where ever,you get paid,oh $2,000 for that one flight?or is it something different,can someone explain to me how pilot pay works?

12-31-2005, 12:54 PM

HSLD

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In general, hourly rate x monthly credit time = monthly pay. You could look at it by the trip, although most airlines pay twice monthly, not by the trip.

Guarantees are the minimum that a company will pay a pilot. This is important for reserves as most reserves don't have control over how many hours they will fly.

12-31-2005, 01:56 PM

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Further...a pilots pay begins when the aircraft is pushed back from the gate and stops when the aircraft stops at the gate at the end of a flight. All of that sit around time between flights is not pay time.

01-01-2006, 10:39 PM

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What happens if pilots complete a flight early or even late, do they still get paid for the scheduled flight time?

01-01-2006, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Roll Inverted and Pull

That's not necessarily true. In addition to hourly pay there are also rig times. Depending on who you fly for and the working agreement in effect in addition to hard time (pushback to block-in)there might be duty rig time and trip rig time involved. Most of the trips that I fly include some sort of rig time that takes the pay way beyond the hard time. And we get paid 100% for a deadhead leg as well.

01-02-2006, 05:01 PM

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That is correct Ranger, but I felt that all this was getting pretty complicated for a young guy that wanted a "broad Brush' of how we get(got, in my case) paid. We could go into night differential, 1 for 3, 1 for 3 1/2, over water, reserve guarantee, green slips, yellow slips, sim pay, ground school, etc.

01-04-2006, 02:27 PM

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i have a question about the pay scales

lets say you are a 5th year f/o and you upgrade to captain
do you stay in that 5th year bracket? or do you move down to 1st year:?
i guess im asking if the years in the left collumn of the pay scale on this site are seniority related? or by the time flown in each seat/plane.

01-04-2006, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by aspiring_pilot

The 5th year pay would be time with the company, not time in a given seat. That's how it works at every company that I'm aware of. So a 5th year F/O becomes a 5th year captain when he upgrades.