Per Diems?
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Per Diems?
I was wondering what the average per diems you guys average per year? monthy?
Greatly appreciated.
Greatly appreciated.
Re: Per Diems?
It would depend on what you bid,
If you do single days as often as one can, $300 would be a normal month.
If you do 3 5 days with a few international layovers it’ll be higher in the $500 + amount.
The rates per hour have gone up each year a few %, I don’t have them handy, I’m sure someone can update the amounts per hour of domestic vs international.
If you do single days as often as one can, $300 would be a normal month.
If you do 3 5 days with a few international layovers it’ll be higher in the $500 + amount.
The rates per hour have gone up each year a few %, I don’t have them handy, I’m sure someone can update the amounts per hour of domestic vs international.
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Re: Per Diems?
Are you trying to justify the low pay to yourself by supplementing it in with your Meal Cost Replacement (MCR)? MCR (colloquially 'per diem') is not compensation for your work or your experience and is only a replacement of the costs you bear by living your life on the road.JungleRiot wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 10:23 am I was wondering what the average per diems you guys average per year? monthy?
Greatly appreciated.
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They could just be trying to decide if the per diem is enough to actually cover the cost of food on the road so they can decide then. $15 breakfast, $20-25 lunch and $30+ supper isn’t hard to do so doing due diligence isn’t bad to make sure you are coveredaverageatbest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 8:48 pmAre you trying to justify the low pay to yourself by supplementing it in with your Meal Cost Replacement (MCR)? MCR (colloquially 'per diem') is not compensation for your work or your experience and is only a replacement of the costs you bear by living your life on the road.JungleRiot wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 10:23 am I was wondering what the average per diems you guys average per year? monthy?
Greatly appreciated.
Re: Per Diems?
In this era of relentless and suffocating tax increases, I'd much rather take a substantial increase to perdiems instead of salary.
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Re: Per Diems?
Keep in mind you will be on reserve. Per diems can be zero
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MCR is not a make or break item. The rest of the contract should pull a crappy MCR up and not the other way around.
That is unless the MCR is ridiculously high.
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In the seventies/eighties it always was a hamburger and a bottle of whiskey per day. I don't think it has changed that much.