Turboprops&Jet

[Johnman]

At the companies that have both Jet aircrafts like an A320, B737 and turboprops like a DHC-8, Saab 340 what would be the difference in basic salaries between the flight crew flying the Jet and the flight crew flying the Turbo. Can you give a live examples, and what is the best way to handle these financial issues with a fair system to all crews?

[monkeyboy]

I've just transferred from the DHC-8-300 to the ERJ145 with my airline and I took home a 75% payrise.

I do not believe the 75% rise is justifiable. ie: the TP pay should not be as low as it is in the first place.

[SKY's4ME]

Diff

All depends on the company.
BACX is a prime example of an airline paying peanuts for its Dash guys and industry standard for its other A/C types.

Other operators are paying their Turbo prop FO's the same as Jet FO's!

skys4me

[abracadabra]

www.ppjn.com will reveal all, except, of course, the actual reasons for the differences

[Johnman]

Thank you all,it seems not fair for the turboprop pilots,but it seems thats the policy everywhere.

[CruisingSpeed]

Higher pay for jettransport pilots is due to higher exposure to cosmic radiation, remember, radiation rises exponentially above 29.000 feet.

Think of it as severance pay.

Plus, too much fun down there in the soup, dont assume those managers havent noticed...

[Johnman]

Fair payscale

It seems that the turboprob pilots get approx 60% of the salary of the jet pilots . Again there are many factors to be considered on both sides of the coin to come up with a fair payscale.

[mealie puddins]

75% is that net or gross, either way it's a lot of extra money. You keeping the same seat.

[monkeyboy]

That's gross without duty pay and still in the RHS.

As mentioned earlier, my company pays its TP FOs peanuts but normal-ish rates for jet FOs.

[Johnman]

Sometimes the case is when you have co-pilots with little or no experience, the start salary would be low till they finish the training and build some experience.