creedence623
Filing Flight Plan
Hi all. I've got what may be a loaded question here, but I thought there would be value in posting to this forum to get your insight.
Background. I work for a firm that employs primarily former military aviators for overseas contracts (at the requisite overseas/hardship pay rates). We recently stood up a division that provides aviation services in the continental US. The problem is that when we submit proposals for CONUS-based programs, the relatively higher labor rates we carry tend to prevent us from competing on a cost basis.
My instinct was to open up pilot positions with lower minimum experience requirements to fly our single engine fleet (C206s or similar) here in the States, but a discussion I had with our hiring manager has me wondering if we're off base on our compensation package for these new positions.
I'm going to keep this very general as some of the finer details of the requisition are still being worked out. In terms of experience, we would be looking for low-time CPL holders. Very generally speaking, 250-300 hours would be fine.
We are leaning toward this being a full time, non-exempt position starting in the neighborhood of $40,000 a year with medical and a 100% 401k match (up to 10%). Part time employment at a minimum of 32 hours per week has been thrown out there as well, but I think it's going to go the full time non-exempt route.
In addition to what I consider pretty solid pay for a good candidate with a new CPL, we could potentially pay for a multi-engine commercial rating to fly King Airs, and potentially provide a type rating in one of our larger aircraft assuming solid performance over a 1-2 year period in the single engine (with the customary 1 year service obligation or requirement for repayment of training expenses incurred if the employee left within a year of one of those training events).
So for conversational purposes, I'm interested to hear where the community thinks an offer like this falls on the spectrum for low time commercial pilots without the military background, as this is a reasonably new labor pool for me. My contention in the office today was that this is a pretty competitive offering when compared to the CFI who got me my PPL. If I'm off base and need to re calibrate my expectations I'd love to hear it.
As an aside, this isn't a solicitation per se, but I'd be happy to pass resumes on to the hiring manager if anyone in new England is interested (or if you're interested in moving to New England). Once the requisition has been approved and posted to our careers portal, I could point people in that direction as well.
Background. I work for a firm that employs primarily former military aviators for overseas contracts (at the requisite overseas/hardship pay rates). We recently stood up a division that provides aviation services in the continental US. The problem is that when we submit proposals for CONUS-based programs, the relatively higher labor rates we carry tend to prevent us from competing on a cost basis.
My instinct was to open up pilot positions with lower minimum experience requirements to fly our single engine fleet (C206s or similar) here in the States, but a discussion I had with our hiring manager has me wondering if we're off base on our compensation package for these new positions.
I'm going to keep this very general as some of the finer details of the requisition are still being worked out. In terms of experience, we would be looking for low-time CPL holders. Very generally speaking, 250-300 hours would be fine.
We are leaning toward this being a full time, non-exempt position starting in the neighborhood of $40,000 a year with medical and a 100% 401k match (up to 10%). Part time employment at a minimum of 32 hours per week has been thrown out there as well, but I think it's going to go the full time non-exempt route.
In addition to what I consider pretty solid pay for a good candidate with a new CPL, we could potentially pay for a multi-engine commercial rating to fly King Airs, and potentially provide a type rating in one of our larger aircraft assuming solid performance over a 1-2 year period in the single engine (with the customary 1 year service obligation or requirement for repayment of training expenses incurred if the employee left within a year of one of those training events).
So for conversational purposes, I'm interested to hear where the community thinks an offer like this falls on the spectrum for low time commercial pilots without the military background, as this is a reasonably new labor pool for me. My contention in the office today was that this is a pretty competitive offering when compared to the CFI who got me my PPL. If I'm off base and need to re calibrate my expectations I'd love to hear it.
As an aside, this isn't a solicitation per se, but I'd be happy to pass resumes on to the hiring manager if anyone in new England is interested (or if you're interested in moving to New England). Once the requisition has been approved and posted to our careers portal, I could point people in that direction as well.
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