Originally Posted by
drop24
Does the pay scale top out at 5 years? Are years of service carried over from FO to CA if you upgrade? Or do you go from say year 5 FO pay to year 1 CA pay?
There is no real pay scale, per se. You have an fo contract for 5 years. Then, if renewed, you get another fo contract for 5 years. Once you upgrade, you get a captain contract for 5 years. The payscales will continue to increase on each contract. They don't increase much but they do increase.
I haven't done my second captain contract yet, still have 1 more year, but I am assuming that the pay will continue to increase marginally.
Edit: Ok, was just informed by a wonderful co-worker of mine that there is a payscale. This is the first I have seen it in almost 9 years of working here. Apparently it is not easy to come across. The pay does increase each year and it is a 20 year payscale. And, in my opinion, needs to be increased by a couple of thousand each month.