If anyone is interested v.PAY

[GnW]

I made a spreadsheet for myself with all the formulas done for locality, monthly take-home pay, max gross and minimum gross. It's for Michigan and Oregon, but if you just plug in the base salary for your facility level and locality rate, the formulas will adjust the other values accordingly

I assumed a 33% tax rate.


http://frank.chazbox.com/files/1/Cop...y%20Bands2.xls

[pm577]

Cool, too bad it's going to take a while to get fully checked out and achieve these rates.

I visited my future facility today, a level 6, and they have 7 CPCs, and 7 trainees. So even a small place like that is already overloaded with students.
They told me that it would take apprx. 1 year to get checked out at that facility, assuming I don't wash out. Some will take longer...

[GnW]

Originally Posted by pm577

Cool, too bad it's going to take a while to get fully checked out and achieve these rates.

I visited my future facility today, a level 6, and they have 7 CPCs, and 7 trainees. So even a small place like that is already overloaded with students.
They told me that it would take apprx. 1 year to get checked out at that facility, assuming I don't wash out. Some will take longer...

i know guys going to level 6s and 7s and they've all been told it should take them 6-8 months to make CPC?

it must just be because of the huge amount of trainees. but then again, that place is going to be fun as hell to work at in a few years what with all the old farts retiring

[nathanw]

Originally Posted by GnW

at a level 6, it should take you under a year. 5-7 months would be my guess

Don't forget there are 7 trainees already in line ahead of him (her?), and only 7 people to train them AND work traffic.

[GnW]

Originally Posted by nathanw

Don't forget there are 7 trainees already in line ahead of him (her?), and only 7 people to train them AND work traffic.

holy crap that was fast. see the edited post

[nathanw]

Originally Posted by GnW

holy crap that was fast. see the edited post

lol

[pm577]

And many of these small facilities are only open 14 hours a day, or so.

Therefore they can only take a SMALL handful of local or ground instructing at any given time. Perhaps 2 or 3 can be assigned to a particular training type. So I have to wait for those 2-3 to get CPC, then the next 2-3 to make CPC, then I can finally train on local.

On the bright side: I was told that getting checked out on ground can take just a few months. After that you get an immediate raise of over 10k/year. However the backlog in training tends to occur in local, since this is longer and more demanding.

[GnW]

i really thought more people would be interested, but oh well

[Acey97]

That was pretty neat. I tried it out to see what the initial pay might be after the first year or so.

[Freezer41]

cool, thanks, what is factored into your take home pay

[GnW]

Originally Posted by Freezer41

cool, thanks, what is factored into your take home pay

generally speaking, you end up losing 1/3 of your paycheck to taxes one way or another. that's all.