Reply To: C-Innovation U.S. Payrates?

Lunch,

So just humor me for a moment please… You guys are actually working 8 months a year for $100K BEFORE TAX, in Brazil – where you lose a day and a half on each side of your hitch for travel (losing time off…), and you’re happy with this???? Do you not believe there is better than this??? I’m assuming you’re not married…

Well as I mentioned before in another post. $100K a year is doing pretty damn good in the states. Also for us that are over seas, we are not subject to the 4 and 2 rotation, we get paid a high hourly rate and we get paid for out travel time. The travel back to the States is 10 hours, but only across 3 time zones, not 7 to the North Sea. As far as being happy with it, well sure, I’d like to make more money. Who doesn’t want to make more? do I think it’s worth more? Maybe, Maybe not. Depends on how pissy the Dutch are being. I’m guessing that more of the posters here on this website are not American and have no clue about living in the States. I won’t go off on a nationalistic tangent about how America is, but I will say in our economy, where stuff isn’t ridiculously expensive (depending on where in the States you live), $100K+ a year is doing good. Compared to the peanuts I used to make doing a more stressful job, for less time off, longer shifts, no OT and having to commute to work everyday, this job might as well be a promotion to royalty. Heck, at Saipem, I was making less than $100K and I was still living good. I can C-I pays better than Saipem, OI, and Canyon. Lastly, I don’t see what being married has to do with anything. As I said, I live a comfortable life on the amount of money I make.