What do you make?

That's still $4.20 more than the desker who drives 20 miles roundtrip to and from work receives.

Sure, you go a few dozen miles for an assignment, you ought to be reimbursed for the wear and tear on your vehicle.

But IMO, anything inside your county is just "going to work." At least it is for most workers. Over 26 years, I drove more than 300,000 miles to and from work at my former shop. They owe me a new car! But I'll just settle for the $63,000 at $0.21 a mile. What? I don't get that either?

Just something to think about.

 

I was getting .32 per mile.
Making it worse was driving 35 miles to the office. To make up for it, I'd cover a game closer to me. We'd take round trip mileage, so I'd be able to pay for my drive. Many championship and playoff games are a seven minute drive from my house. I'd take the 70-something roundtrip miles.
Downside was when I had to cover a Friday nigth football game near the office; I'd drive 70 miles round trip and get paid for four.

 

I've worked at more than one place that would have preferred it be done that way. One ME never understood why I'd drive two or three miles over to a school to conduct interviews in person rather than doing it all over the phone. He couldn't get his head around the fact that I could interview a coach and several players in one trip and do so in much less time than if I sat around the office waiting for calls to be returned. Which costs less, the mileage or the overtime?

 

Not if they're going to the office first, then the assignment, such as reporters who go in, work on a story, then go cover a board meeting 20 miles away, write the board meeting story on the laptop, then go back the 20 miles past the office another 10 miles to their home.

Just something to think about.

 

Apples and oranges.

 

I used to be a desker at my last stop before my present job. Drove an hour each way. And like the guy said before, apples and oranges. Mileage is only applicable when you're having to use your car to do company business. Either that, or they provide you with a car.

 

Started in 97 making $7.50 an hour. When I left the business in 2005 I was making about $35K at a 35,000 daily.

Just a few dollars shy of $100K now.

 

That's a really nice salary. But you're probably underpaid.

 

I'm definitely not underpaid. Civilian pilots at my experience level are paid about 60K. However, they're generally not responsible for 150 Soldiers and $40 million in property. That's where I get paid closer to what I would in the civilian world. My people management; not flying helicopters. I pretty much stole money on this last deployment (business was slow). My salary is a little inflated, based on the Army's pay scale. I was in the Guard for a very long time prior to moving to the active duty side, so I get paid for 16 years, while most of my peers get paid for six.

 

Not e-goddamn-nough

 

I'm not participating, because neither career was journalism, but I took a significantly larger paycut. I olny have regrets twice a month.

 

I make $0. I'm unemployed.

Last year in Trenton I made just under 50K.

In 1989 I started at $5/hour as the guy who did all the little shit that no one else wanted to do.