On Wed, 23 May 2007 19:14:19 GMT, Jose
wrote in :

What items would you include in "everything beyond the hourly cash pay
rate" that you would expect to be less costly using overtime pay in
lieu of standard pay rate?

Things like health benefits, which are per person and not per unit time,
and something like overhead (I forget what they call it) which doesn't
go up with overtime.


Perhaps. But you'll have to admit that the hourly cost of overtime
labor is more, and overtime has the potential to impact safety.
Without quantifying the data, any savings it's going to be difficult
to ascertain.

So some small-minded bean-counter figured out that the savings in
reduced benefits can be quantified, but the increased hazard to air
safety doesn't impact the FAA's bottom line? Despicable!