What are pay increases like at SkyWest Airlines?

Schedule flexibility, great seniority compared to mainline partners, quality of life is what you make of it and is up to the individual. Supportive leadership and InFlight team. Supportive and fun team and job diversity. Lots of space for growth if you want to work in different roles or positions (Lead Instructor, InFlight Support Center, Domicile Support Specialist, etc). No Union! More pay increases, more often, flexibility in our contract and we can ask for the next negotiation whenever we want. Great travel perks and flight benefits.

Only downsides apply to the industry as a whole. Pay the first year is tough, so are the schedules. It’s a lot to adjust to and many friends and family won’t understand. But this is a positive new start to your life and career, come prepared with a cushioned savings and do research about meal prepping for crew members. You will miss out on lots of events (weddings, anniversaries, graduations, etc), have to reschedule appointments, and adapt to life. But, you can also get chunks of time off without having to use vacation. Flexibility, time management and self-care are a MUST to survive.

great coworkers but management is a joke

Low pay, no flexibility dishonestly run

You move up in seniority pretty fast cause everyone quits

Often spread thin on staffing due to low pay and bidded schedule with nights, weekends and Holidays a must be able to work to get hired. Most new hires get stuck on 3rd shift at least until everyone in front of them in seniority quits, which usually does not take to long in the parts dept. Lazy coworkers often go unchecked by management making it a contest to see who can do the least. Often pulled in 10 different directions making it almost impossible to prioritize.(Cant be 2 places at once). The Parts department is constantly overlooked by the company when pay raises are implemented. The regional airline operators are only comparing wages to other regional airlines instead of comparing to similar industries that pay way more to start. Example being warehousing industry Save your effort aim higher.

Pay is horrible for almost everyone at headquarters. At poverty level starting pay and on a fixed raise scale that gives $.10 or $.20 per year. Not what you would expect for a large company like this. It is also inconsistent. How is HDQ Maintenance able to give $3 overrides but not other departments? There is always turnover since the pay is so low so it is actually costing the company more than if they just gave decent raises. And everyone gets the same raise so there is no incentive to work harder. Management is inconsistent: they don’t enforce policy for some employees, let some work remote but not others, let remote employees slack off while they watch their kids or have other jobs on the clock, and create part-time jobs for people they like.

The CEO does not show integrity: holding a plane for his daughter and then bumping a first class passenger for her. Adding his son as an intern so he can get flight benefits (hasn’t worked here a day). He makes millions while underpaying everyone else.

You can become a line holder pretty quickly depending on your base. They have 20 cities you can be based in. You can put in a transfer for any base every month so you can move around to different cities pretty easily. The flight benefits are really good.

Pay is good for starting out but it doesn't go up for a long time. You won't see a bump in your hourly until you're at least 5 years in and the pay tops out at under $50/ hour after 25 years of flying. Some trips can have up to 6 flights a day, however you can bid avoid these types of trips if you learn how to bid for your schedule correctly. Trips that pay the most are usually trips with a lot of legs and minimum rest overnights so it can be really exhausting with little pay off.

Absolutely no pro's to rave about.

Working at SkyWest in Crew Support was one of the most demoralizing and disappointing experiences of my entire professional life. The pay is insultingly low considering the immense responsibility, complexity, and pressure of the role. You are expected to perform at a high level with virtually no real training, just hundreds of pages of dense policy dumped on you and then you’re punished if you haven’t memorized it all. You’re reprimanded for asking too many questions, even though you're new and trying to learn. Yes, asking questions will get you written up or seen as incompetent. The corporate office is bleak. Everyone looks drained, dark circles under their eyes, flat expressions, completely checked out. You walk through the halls and feel like you’re in a hospital ward for the emotionally dead. The management in Crew Support is especially soulless and out of touch. They treat people like disposable cogs, not human beings. It’s clear that employee wellbeing means nothing to them. The “training” is a joke. You’re walked through policy and then thrown into real-world situations where you’re expected to already know what to do. I was failed during my assessment not for major errors, but for minor, self corrected mistakes that were documented obsessively just to justify getting rid of me. Meanwhile, supervisors who trained me admitted they were job-hunting immediately after starting, and some of them still are even after nearly a decade. Why? Because the pay barely increases (think $0.10 raises per year), the stress is massive, and the hours are brutal. SkyWest proudly underpays Crew Support because they know they can exploit people who are desperate to break into aviation. It’s predatory. And when management tells you, “If you show up and don’t give up, we won’t give up on you,” it’s a flat out lie. I did everything right. Showed up early, worked hard, took notes, asked questions and they still cut me loose without any real justification. This job drained me mentally, emotionally, and physically. It made me question myself every single day. No part of this was worth it, not for the pay, not for the experience, and definitely not for the treatment. Avoid this company like the plague unless you're looking to be devalued, overworked, and eventually thrown out.

Good flight benefits with a number of companion options to add.

Could have better uniforms. Pay increases could be better for more senior FAs. After 5 years your pay increases are not much at all. Between some change to $1 difference.

great company to work with

not the best pay and no commuter policy

I've enjoyed working here over the past 1.5 years. Excellent training and management department.

High cost of living in the area, salary is barely enough to make it work. Especially if you have children

Flight benefits for 3 carriers

Pay increases but average credit per trip decreases.