Pay for working a day off

[727Man]

Just trying to get a general consensus on the rate of pay for working a off day from different airlines?

[BALLSOUT]

£235 a day + sector pay. In total between £280 & £420 after tax, depending on what sectors you fly on the day.
Some have been asked to cover standby on a day off, you get £235 for this if you are not called.

[Notso Fantastic]

Whilst I can understand a pilot wanting to check terms and conditions for other airlines for such things, I'm curious as to why you want to know because you are not a commercial pilot?

[careerpilotman]

possibly journo or maybe just interested

[rubik101]

Balls out, you didn't mention the airline but in light of the fishing from journos, just as well!

[beachbumflyer]

You shouldn't even think about working on your day off. :=

[crewcostundercontrol]

EZY

SFO £547 Day Off
Cpt £1011 Day Off

[kuwaitlocal]

:eek: I must be on a different contract at Easy. Easy may buy back the odd bit of leave from time to time, but you work in to a day off due delays etc and you get zip. If you exceed 1.5 hrs in to your day off, then you get another day off back.

[crewcostundercontrol]

Yep talking about last years leave buyback

[Notso Fantastic]

Yup, that's how it is!
Somebody asks a question
Somebody asks 'why do you want to know?'
Somebodyelse either changes the question and answers, or answers another question altogether
Everybodyelse argues
Moderator steps in and bans people
Thread disappears into history

And still, nobody gets a proper answer!

[727Man]

N F, thank you for your concern I am a commercial pilot, just trying to get a background figure to talk to management! Thank you all for replying to my post!

[Knee Trembler]

Best I heard of was at XL in 2006.

I was called from sby to position with BA LGW to NCL at 21.30 and fly a ferry back to LGW. Check out 01.30.

As they couldn't find a capt, they brought someone in from days off. He got 750 GBP twice as the duty went over midnight, plus the days off back on the next roster.

1500 quid for 40 mins work. Now that's the life!

KT

Ps. As I was on sby anyway, guess how much I got ;-)

[towser]

(Salary*1.5)/222-tax!

[lordsummerisle]

Remember a pilot at a company i worked at a few years ago, filling his day off claim form after working approx an hour into his day off, complaining that it wasn't much after 40% tax was taken off.

Suggested that maybe he was lucky to be in the 40% tax bracket, and could always ask to have his pay cut so he wouldn't have to pay 40% tax, strangely enough he didn't seem able to understand my point.

[SUPER HANS]

I'm sure he understood the point, but as he's earned his position to be paying the ridiculous 40% tax by being captain then I can see his point that he doesn't want to give nearly half to the government to fritter away.

[Brian Fantana]

Beachbumflyer

Why not?

[Knee Trembler]

Come to Germany and pay 52% of your hard earned to keep the workshy, skinhead nazis in beer and fags.

Gross pay €6200, net pay €2300! (Klasse V für Kenner).

(Apologies if you are a gainfully employed, skinhead nazi ;-)).

KT

[beardy]

UK charter

Number of days available to work
(365-leave-mandatory days off) =225

Bonus payment for working 'day off' (put it another way penalty payment for undercrewing establishment) = 1.5

ergo payment for day off working is

annual salary*1.5/225

Works for all rank/seniority

[beachbumflyer]

Brian,

When you work on a day off, in the long run you are hurting the other pilots and yourself. There are pilots who don't want to work on a day off
and the company could pressure them to work.
You are telling the company that it is OK to trade quality of life for money.
If the company sees pilots selling their days off there will be less hiring and upgrades. There are lots of unemployed pilots out there.
You can't ask later for more quality of life when you are willing to sell it.
In the future the company could reduce the number of days off for more
money, and later reduce the pay without giving back the days off.
I am sure there are more reasons not to work on a day off, just see how
much the terms and conditions for pilots and cabin crews have eroded
lately.
It's sad that people used to say to fly on a day off and now they say
to work.

[Going down]

Several posts indicate the figure of 1.5 * pay. The company I work for also pays 1.5 times the day rate (monthly salary divided by average monthly working days of approximately 20). The normal work day to off day ratio is 2:1. Which means that every day you work 'earns' 1/2 off day. Working an off day means: loosing one day and not getting the 'earned' 1/2 day....total 1.5 days. In other word break even (except for some per diem).

Greetz,

G.D.