>>2004395>>2004395Not shown: 3.5% increases across the board with our latest contract. I'm at $32.11/hr or $67,788 base because I was a year 3 maintenance man making $56k in the same agency at LGA before taking a promotional test (they have to at least give you a 5% bump). We can easily clock 500-700 hours of overtime so we can stack another $25-45k on top of our base pay. Rotating shifts can add shift diff roughly $2-5k for working afternoons or nites. So some of the senior guys can pull $110-140k in a year if they're greedy and want to live here.
Please get me out of here it's just hard to stomach a 30-40% pay cut. The only thing making it tolerable is that average rent here outside of Manhattan is $1800-2100 a month....but houses are going for $500-750k + 12-20% tip over asking price 60-90 mins away by car. I have coworkers with 2 hour commutes one way. Taxes are 35% inc. my 401K Pension and Healthcare.
We do a little bit of everything at my job as an ops agent, including runway closures/sweeps, wildlife, FOD, escorts both contractors and aircraft, airside construction watch, and whatever ATC asks us to.
