swinte00
Well-Known Member
Congratulations! Wise decision. I would have loved ZSE
Is this normal?
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swinte00
Well-Known Member
That's my reasoning. I'd be happy as a controller anywhere, but I love the PNW
swinte00
Well-Known Member
Nice! You should try and talk to the facility manager and see if you can get a tour!
swinte00
Well-Known Member
Be sure to enjoy some of that cool summertime weather up there.. I hate southern summers.. Hot, muggy, and just downright sickening sometimes.
I here that. I have been in GA now for about 8 years, and I am still not used to the summers.
Bernoulli Fan
Controller
If I'm reading everything right, that means you get $80.40 per diem PLUS $500 every two weeks? That's approximately $3,412 a month. I don't want to trivialize anyone's financial situation, but that's a big raise for me, even if I have to pay rent on two apartments!
Plus locality, I got selected for ZDV so that's another 22%. Put's it close to $4100/month
Heck yes! Locality for the facility you're going to, not OKC locality. Sounds fair to me!
Heck yes! Locality for the facility you're going to, not OKC locality. Sounds fair to me!
Nice!
greg1016
Trustworthy Source
Cite your sources please. I believe you don't draw locality pay until you report to your facility, can someone who has actually been through the process confirm/deny this?
Seriously, why would they pay you per diem and locality? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Seriously, why would they pay you per diem and locality? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
My thoughts exactly. It just doesnt make any sense, but if I get accepted, I'll take it.
PantherFlyer13
New Member
After graduating college, getting married, and working as a CFI "full-time", I'm going from $1000/month if I'm lucky to $4000/month while at the Academy in OKC (including base salary, locality percentage of 23.56% for Detroit TRACON, and daily per diem).
To each his/her own, but I'm planning on making more money at the Academy in 2 1/2 months than I'm currently earning in a full year. Plus the Mrs. will be living at home in Detroit with family pulling the poor newlywed card, so there's only one household to support. I'm not complaining at all.
-Panther
pd82
New Member
If you use the facility pay calculator on this website, it tells you your pay at all levels of your training. It does your base pay at the academy and adds in the locality of your future facility. It does not, however, tell you your total with per diem.
PantherFlyer13
New Member
There's different reasons for each component.
Per diem is given because you are essentially on a government-sponsored leave of absence to go to paid training, and they understand that most people will not sell their homes or be lucky enough to have a rental lease contract that expires just before training begins. Per diem offsets the cost of operating two households and possibly a split family situation simultaneously.
Locality is an essential part of government pay rates that the OPM (Office of Personnel Management) gives to GS-grade employees in order to offset the cost of living. Think of it as a COLA, or a Cost-Of-Living-Adjustment/Allowance. While base salary for the same job in two parts of the country might be fair on a large scale, $1000 a month could pay a monthly mortgage payment for a 3000-sq.ft. home in one city whereas $3000 a month might only afford a 500-sq.ft. loft studio apartment.
The OKC locality percentage is the "Rest of the U.S." percentage rate, and I'm not quite sure why you are allowed to get paid your destination facility percentage while in training, but it could only help you, since OKC is at the bottom of the locality rates.
