Just finished another float season, about 370 hours on a Beaver, with close to 650 float total and 1100(Plus a little) hours.
I know not many people actually post on this subpage, but I wanted to know what sort of wage I should ask for on a beaver; or if a company will hire me for a caravan or otter as a first year guy, what wage would be reasonable to pitch for?
What I want to know:
First Year Van salary for floats?
First Year Otter salary floats?
Second year DHC-2 Salary floats?
For a bit more context I have no turbine time to date and got offers of 8000-9300$/month this season (Beaver), now I have more experience on a beaver what's a reasonable ask? 10k? Or is that being greedy?
Hopefully someone sees this in a month or so and can give me some guidelines to help prep me for next season
Looking for some advice on DHC-2/C208/DHC-3?
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Re: Looking for some advice on DHC-2/C208/DHC-3?
check out the PCC website, there's ads there for both the otter and beaver with pay rate. that will give you a baseline. The rest of the operators start advertising in the new year and the range in pay can be wide, depending on experience and need. ie, i know a place in NWO that pays beaver pilots 15k a month, and another one pays 6500 a month....
