American Airlines

Gross, taxable US employment income in USD; contract currency USD, no FX conversion. No housing, schooling or transport allowances; a taxed gross figure, not a tax-free package. BASE PAY ONLY, excluding per diem (published on the live page at $1.95 plus $5 per international overnight or CDO; the December 2025 portfolio estimated per diem at $7,200 a year) and excluding signing and retention bonuses. SOURCE: Envoy's live 'Current Rates' table, fetched 10 August 2026, which publishes a two-step first officer ladder of year 1 $99.00/hr and year 2 $161.25/hr. The year-2 rate is captain-rate pay: Envoy first officers reaching 750 hours of applicable Part 121.436 flight time become eligible for captain pay rates congruent with their years of service, so almost no Envoy first officer sits on a pure first officer step past year 1. ANNUALISATION: Envoy's own published convention of hourly rate x 1,000 hours. This is a marketing convention, not a floor, and it is above Envoy's own published minimum monthly guarantee of 72 hours for lineholders (864 hours a year) and 75 hours for reserves (900 hours a year); at 900 hours the same rates give roughly $89,100 and $145,125. It is also not comparable line for line with the 900-hour convention used for the Delta and United rows. MATERIAL CAVEAT: Envoy's December 2025 pilot portfolio states that all pilot hourly rates include a 50 percent pilot supply premium that applies only until 31 December 2026, so this scale is scheduled to fall. The superseded 10 June 2025 to 10 June 2026 portfolio table showed a longer first officer ladder topping out at $117.75 at years 4 to 6; that structure no longer appears on the employer's current rates page and should not be published as live. Employer recruitment material, not a union scale, and the live page carries no effective date, hence weak confidence.

Gross, taxable US employment income in USD; contract currency USD, no FX conversion. No housing, schooling or transport allowances. BASE PAY ONLY, excluding per diem ($1.95 plus $5 per international overnight or CDO on the live page) and excluding bonuses. SOURCE: Envoy's live 'Current Rates' table, fetched 10 August 2026, which publishes captain pay from year 3 only: year 3 $161.25/hr, year 4 $165.00/hr, year 5 $168.75/hr. There is no year-1 or year-2 captain step on the current scale, because an Envoy pilot's first year is spent as a first officer at $99.00/hr and captain pay begins on reaching 750 hours of applicable Part 121.436 flight time. NOT INCLUDED IN THE MAX because it is conditional rather than an ordinary scale step: the live page shows a year-6 rate of $221.25/hr ($221,250 on the same convention), which Envoy's December 2025 pilot portfolio footnotes for the equivalent step as the rate for delayed flow after completion of a pilot's fifth year, that is, for pilots held beyond their expected flow-through to American Airlines. ANNUALISATION: Envoy's own published convention of hourly rate x 1,000 hours. It is a marketing convention rather than a floor and sits above Envoy's published minimum monthly guarantee of 72 hours for lineholders (864 a year) and 75 hours for reserves (900 a year); at 900 hours the same rates give roughly $145,125 to $151,875. Not comparable line for line with the 900-hour convention used for the Delta and United rows. MATERIAL CAVEAT: Envoy states that all pilot hourly rates include a 50 percent pilot supply premium applying only until 31 December 2026, so this scale is scheduled to fall. Also excluded: Line (IOE) Check Airman, Proficiency Check Airman and APD pay, published at $442.50/hr 'Thru Dec 26' for pilots past their fifth year of service, set at step 20 of the captain pay scale. The superseded 10 June 2025 to 10 June 2026 portfolio table showed captain pay from year 1 at $157.50 rising to $172.50 at year 5; that ladder is no longer on the employer's current rates page and should not be published as live. Employer recruitment material, not a union scale, and the live page carries no effective date, hence weak confidence.

Contract hourly rates, Section 3.A of the 2024 APFA CBA: 1st year $36.81, 2nd year $39.01, 3rd year $41.51 at the DOS+1 step. ANNUALISATION ASSUMPTION, STATED: 71 credited hours per month, which is the contractual lineholder minimum monthly guarantee in Section 3.B.1, times 12 = 852 credited hours per year. A reserve carries a 75-hour guarantee, so reserve annuals run about 5.6% higher. Figures are GROSS, pre-tax US wages in USD, subject to federal and state income tax, FICA and Medicare. NO housing, schooling or transport allowance: US carriers provide none, unlike Gulf packages where a comparable headline number is tax-free and sits on top of employer-paid housing and schooling. A $31k US gross figure and a $31k Gulf tax-free package are not comparable. These figures EXCLUDE boarding pay (paid at half the hourly rate as pay-no-credit since 1 April 2025), per diem, international pay ($3.00/hr NIPD, $3.75/hr IPD), language premium and profit sharing, so they are floors on total compensation rather than typical take-home. No FX conversion applied. The next scale step, DOS+2 at +3.0% ($37.91 first year), takes effect 1 October 2026.

Two-carrier row, each carrier separately sourced and the ranges overlap. AMERICAN (source: APFA CBA Section 3.A, DOS+1 step): 5th year $48.69/hr to 10th year $66.94/hr. UNITED (source: United careers pay page, 30 July 2026 step): 5th year $50.56/hr to 10th year $69.29/hr. The floor of the range is American's 5th year and the ceiling is United's 10th year, both published figures, not extrapolations. ANNUALISATION ASSUMPTION, STATED: 852 credited hours per year (71 credited hours per month, the APFA contractual lineholder guarantee); United's guarantee is not published in the source used. Confidence is moderate rather than strong solely because of the shared annualisation assumption, not the hourly rates. GROSS pre-tax USD, fully taxable, NO housing, schooling or transport allowances, unlike Gulf tax-free packages. EXCLUDES per diem, boarding pay, international and language premiums and profit sharing. No FX conversion applied.

AMERICAN ONLY. Derived row: American publishes no purser pay scale, so this combines the Section 3.A seniority rate with the Section 3.C position premium, both verified in the 2024 APFA CBA. FLOOR: 10th-year DOS+1 rate $66.94 plus the $5.75 Purser premium = $72.69/hr. CEILING: 13th-year top-of-scale $84.50 plus the $7.50 IPD Purser/Lead premium = $92.00/hr. Nothing sits above the 13th-year step, so the base component of the ceiling is the published top, not an estimate. TWO ASSUMPTIONS, BOTH STATED. First, 852 credited hours per year (71/month lineholder guarantee, Section 3.B.1). Second, and this is the load-bearing one, the premium is assumed to be earned on every credited hour. Section 3.C rates are per hour in the position, so a purser who flies only part of the month in the premium position earns less; $92.00/hr is a composite, not a published rate. The $5.75 Purser premium applies only to A321T and B777 three-class transcon, and the $7.50 IPD Purser/Lead premium only to B777 and B787 international, which is why the label now names those positions. Lead flight attendants are deliberately excluded: the Lead premium is $3.25 on B737-800/900, A319/A320, A321, A321XLR, B777 and B787, so a 10th-year Lead on a narrowbody earns $70.19/hr, about $59,800 a year, below this row's floor. Confidence is weak, not moderate: no component of the range is published as a purser rate. GROSS pre-tax USD, fully taxable, NO housing, schooling or transport allowances, unlike Gulf packages where a comparable headline figure is tax-free and sits on top of employer-paid housing and schooling. EXCLUDES per diem, boarding pay (half the Section 3.A rate, pay no credit, since 1 April 2025), international pay and profit sharing. No FX conversion applied. United pursers are excluded because United's ratification release states international purser and language premiums rose but does not publish the amounts.

Gross US pay before federal, state and FICA tax. Hourly, annualised at 2,080 straight-time hours (40h x 52); NO overtime, shift differential, holiday pay or profit sharing included, and US airline overtime for AMTs is substantial, so actual W-2 earnings routinely exceed the top of this range. Currency USD, no FX conversion. The published rates are 'all-in': they already include the $8.50/hr two-licence (A&P) premium and the $1.00/hr line premium; base scale alone is $8.50-$9.50 lower. Range floor is YOS 0-1 ($45.09/hr), ceiling is the 8+ YOS top of scale ($70.22/hr). No housing, schooling or transport allowance: this is a bare cash wage plus US-style benefits (employee-contributory health premiums, 401k), which is why it is not comparable line-for-line with a tax-free Gulf package of similar headline size. Base (hangar) AMTs sit $1.00/hr below these line rates. Scope note: this is one carrier's scale, not a US-wide figure.

Gross US pay, annualised at 2,080 straight-time hours, no overtime or shift differential. USD, no FX conversion. All-in rates including the $3.00/hr skill premium; the line-assigned variant of the same classification is $1.00/hr higher. Floor is YOS 0-1 ($38.59/hr), ceiling is 8+ YOS ($63.72/hr). This is the skilled unlicensed trade (GSE and facilities), NOT aircraft cleaning: American's Utility/Cleaner scale on the same sheet runs $21.16 to $35.50/hr in January 2026, roughly $44,000 to $73,800 on the same annualisation, and belongs in band D. For comparison at a different date, United's equivalent GSE/Facilities technician all-in scale is $32.65 to $57.50/hr but has been frozen since January 2024 (see the United A&P row). No allowances; US pay is taxed.

Gross US pay, annualised at 2,080 straight-time hours; excludes overtime, the $3.00/hr lead-and-move-team premium at United, crew chief premiums at American, and shift differentials (United pays $0.48/hr afternoon). USD, no FX. Each end of the range is sourced separately: floor $19.64/hr is United's Ramp Service step 1 effective 1 May 2025; ceiling $40.31/hr is American's Fleet Service 11+ years step effective January 2026. The two scales overlap across their whole length (United tops out at $37.82/hr, American starts at $20.63/hr), which is why they are shown as one band. Progression is slow and back-loaded: at United a ramp agent is still at $31.07/hr after nine years and only reaches $37.16/hr at ten. Note contract status: United fleet service members REJECTED the June 2026 tentative agreement, so United ramp rates are unlikely to be current for much longer. No housing/schooling/transport allowances; US pay is taxed and these wage levels usually fall below the threshold where airline benefits offset much.