Lear daily rate?

[PA-44Typed]

I was approached about doing some contract flying and am curious what the going daily rate for a FAR 135 Lear PIC/SIC is in central Florida?
I am typed and current in the in the 31, 35, and 55. Thanks.

 

[LR60BOY]

The last contract gig that I did was $700/day. Lear 60. Midwest based, domestic.

 

[NCherches]

$500 day seems normal and I live in Scottsdale AZ (kinda pricey). Maybe $250 for a Crappy FO

 

[LR60BOY]

Check out this link.

http://pilots4rent.com/index.shtml

It's run by a friend of mine and the rates are from actual polls taken from contract pilots. Click on the link on the left "Industry contract rates"

 

[Dr Pokenhiemer]

Depends on what type of 135 it is. There are umpteen air ambulances in Florida and most of them pay next to nothing. Fulltime F/O's working for $20k! If you set your rate at $400/day, after taxes you are taking home about $250 or so. Plus, you have to take part of that to put towards paying your own recurrent in most cases as a contract pilot. If you work for $250-300/day, you will find at the end of the year that you made nothing. Make sense? Of course that all depends on how many days you are getting. 20 days @ 300/day is 6000/month or 72,000/year. Most people will hire a fulltimer for less than that.

 

[RyanHawkerXP]

Can someone explain how you can be a "Contract" pilot? Seems to me that it doesn't pass the IRS interpretation of being a contractor.

 

[Count Dracula]

When you operate your contract business as an LLC or Corp, there is no question.

 

[Shamus]

$500 a day for S. Florida where the pay sucks. You can charge more, but you might go to the bottom of the list for contract workers. Repositiopning plans often pays more, I don't know why. Some chick just called me yeterday to move a LR25, she said she would pay $650 PIC, $450 for SIC, unfortunitly those #s are usually for G-1159s, but I'll take it.

 

[FastJP4]

$500 a day for S. Florida where the pay sucks. You can charge more, but you might go to the bottom of the list for contract workers. Repositiopning plans often pays more, I don't know why. Some chick just called me yeterday to move a LR25, she said she would pay $650 PIC, $450 for SIC, unfortunitly those #s are usually for G-1159s, but I'll take it.

Anyone flying a Gulfstream for those numbers should be shot.