Originally Posted by Celeste3205

Unfortunately, it's not a really simple answer due to the management structure at UPS. Without going into the two different entities (IPA and Management), all APDs are management. Sim and VPT (fixed based sims) instructors are both cpt and FOs. When new instructors are hired, they tend to hire FOs for obvious reasons. But CPTs are hired too. More importantly, for guys like me who've been teaching for decades, you're not sent back to the line when you upgrade. IPA types can do checking, but only MVs and PVs, assuming you're familiar with AQP training. As such, there are many like me hired as an FO and who have stayed on after upgrading, so there are lots of IPA CPT sim instructors. There are a few ground school, non-pilot types, who teach procedures and systems. Poorly. All sim instructors are either line or management pilots. Management mostly does CQ (recurrent) or LOEs. Initial and upgrade is seldom taught by non-IPA instructors. (at least on my fleet)

When we are working in training, we bid for pay. In other words, we go through the bid packet and pick out the lines with the highest credit value and bid in that order. Our min guarantee is 75 hours per 28 day pay period. Lately the lines have been built above guarantee, so there is some soft credit we get compensated for. For each instructional day we are given an override of $125, this amount hasn't changed in over 20 years, so many of us would like that addressed. If you do sim support, no override for you. We are obligated to teach 14 days out of 28. If you do more days you get 4 hours of pay for each event, plus the $125, if applicable. This can be quite nice if it's a short event. Think of a two hour refresher sim, ect. I would say most of us do it because we like to teach and the hours tend to be easier on the body, not so much for the pay.

Originally Posted by Blkout

Airline: FedEx
Fleet: B777
Payscale: year 3 FO
W-2 wage: 620K (Worked extensions in my favor)
Block hours flown 160 FO and maybe 100 RFO ?? 12 total landings in 2021
Days worked: 118 but realistically much less cut days off both ends with double DHDs
Commuter status: Commute but only do deadhead front and back trips so Not applicable

A family member of mine who is a 777 CA made 1.1m… Dont think he will post here

Originally Posted by RiddleEagle18

JetBlue 190CA
Live in base
Bid rsv
Never pick up anything extra

Will finish tomorrow with 90 hours block YTD(probably equally as many hours DH and limo)
12 nights away from home

Final pay check says 203k
Plus 16% 401k
Plus a few hundred per diem


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Originally Posted by RiddleEagle18

JetBlue 190CA
Live in base
Bid rsv
Never pick up anything extra

Will finish tomorrow with 90 hours block YTD(probably equally as many hours DH and limo)
12 nights away from home

Final pay check says 203k
Plus 16% 401k
Plus a few hundred per diem


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Originally Posted by Doomer

Turkish Airlines
>6 year FO
28.000$ net payment per year including bonus. (No typo)
70-75 hours per month
8-10 days of per month