Av8rPHX From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 713 posts, RR: 9 Reply 1, posted (7 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 8627 times:
INTENSS From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 317 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (7 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 8560 times:
Wow....leaves alot out there.....
Big airport? "3" widebodies? What about 2 or 4? :P
Depends on geographical location (cost of living), airline (low paying low-cost or charter vs making money or legacy), responsibilities, number of people under them and experience.
You'd be suprised at the variance in salairies for station managers even within the same company, let alone for different airports and companies. With that said, there is no way to come up with a salary based on your criteria....being at all accurate anyway.
Flyibaby From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 1015 posts, RR: 6 Reply 3, posted (7 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 8517 times:
Most airlines are cheap. Or to put it better, they pay station managers on a whole, not as much as they did 10 years ago. The problem nowadays is such a huge proportion of station managers are mid twenties to mid thirties and wanted the job of "station manager" so bad, that they didn't really get around to negotiating salaries. This is the case wether you speak of a LCC or a legacy carrier. Express stations (UAX, NWX, DCI, ect.) all start at around $25k-$28k. Mesa starts around $23k-$25k even on the west coast. If you want to be a station manager, you are probably better off going into the contract business handling airlines as many airline jobs are being farmed out anymore, and contract companies pay better anyway.
INTENSS From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 317 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (7 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 8480 times:
Quoting Flyibaby (Reply 3): If you want to be a station manager, you are probably better off going into the contract business handling airlines as many airline jobs are being farmed out anymore, and contract companies pay better anyway.
This is the definitive truth. Doesn't hurt working for a few different airlines in a single day.
Philly From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 23 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (7 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 8317 times:
It truly depends on the airline (major carrier vs. commuter) however I would take a guess it would be in the $60,000 based on the information you gave for a major airline.
USPIT10L From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 3266 posts, RR: 8 Reply 7, posted (7 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 8269 times:
Quoting Flyibaby (Reply 3): If you want to be a station manager, you are probably better off going into the contract business handling airlines as many airline jobs are being farmed out anymore, and contract companies pay better anyway.
I don't think you get paid more by working in the contract business, I think you get less. My former station manager at DGS probably made about $35,000 at most. Mainline would probably pay at least $60,000 to $80,000 at PIT anyway, maybe a hundred G's at a large station.
ATWZW170 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 904 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (7 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 8062 times:
For an airline like ZW, if you have experience, you are probably looking $32-34k to start. That is the high end of the regional airlines. As has been pointed out you will get paid crap if you work for Mesa as a station manager.
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