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I was looking at helicopter salaries. I see Air Methods has a location adjustment for their pilot pay.

 

If a location has an ACCRA rating of "Greater than 150%" with a "pay scale adjustment of 160%." How does that formula work? Because the number I came up with about stopped my heart, so am I misunderstanding how it works?

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Multiply base compensation by the cost of living adjustment, the result is added to base salary for adjusted base salary. Example- $100,000 base plus 60% COLA = $160,000 adjusted base salary on which your bi-weekly salary is calculated... except for overtime, meeting and training pay, which are calculated from unadjusted salary. As base salary increases, so does the COLA adjustment.

The 60% block is the maximum COLA adjustment.

AMC uses Sperlings data instead of ACCRA, and rounds to the nearest 10%. My understanding is that the cost of living is adjusted periodically.

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