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Originally Posted by Ryan Coke
Not sure how you’re coming up with annual numbers, but an average would be 80 credit hours/month for a full time crew member, so 960 per year. Multiply that by whatever hourly wage to get a ballpark number.
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I’m not in the industry or have any idea or the regulations, but the general rule of thumb for hourly workers is you double your hourly wage to determine your full time annual income.
If FA’s are only paid for a maximum of 960 hours a year, that would explain the lower annual income. That would be 24 weeks at 40 hrs/week.
I am in total agreement that all work should be paid work, if the FA’s have to be at the airport at 08:00 for a 09:00 flight, the clock starts ticking at 08:00. We need to have a 15 minute crew safety meeting before the shift starts, pay them. Someone needs to lock up the store and shut off the lights, pay them. One of my guys used to say “I’m paid the same for marching or fighting”. Changing an established pay structure will be difficult. Management will have to be more skillful and limit the amount of paid non-productive time and the union will have to look at lower blended hourly rate, if the current rate is at level that includes some unpaid time on either end of the shift.