Pay Calculations 

BidPlus will automatically calculate your estimated paycheck, as well as your holiday pay, and your vacation pay, for every line in the bid package, at your own pay rate.

To enter or adjust your international and domestic pay rate, click on the options menu, and then choose Personal Information.

The lines in a Bank can have their displayed order re-arranged by any of these pay calculations. For details, click here.

Est. Pay - Your estimated paycheck calculation is displayed in the lower right hand corner. It is determined by multiplying your pay rate times the credit time for that particular LOF. It also includes the per diem from all of the IDs in the LOF, as well as the Holiday Pay (if any), and the Vacation Pay (if any).

It does not include night pay, ground pay, or Purser pay. Nor does it include any other calculations that are based on location, such as international override or cost of living adjustments. That is why it simply an estimated pay calcuation.

Holiday Pay - The Holiday Pay figure is displayed at the bottom-right part of the LOF display. It is determined by using the exact Holiday Pay formula found in the contract. Your birthday will be treated appropriately as a holiday. If there is more than one holiday in the month, it will calculate and include both of the holiday's pay in the figure.

There is an exception. If your birthday happens to fall across the same day as an existing holiday, the program will only calculate for one holiday. However, since the calculation formula is the same for each LOF, then the LOFs will still remain in their same relative order if you want to sort by Holiday Pay. You will just need to double the displayed figure for that particular holiday.

Vacation Pay - The Vacation Pay figure is displayed at the bottom, just to the right of center. It is determined by using the exact Vacation Pay formula found in the contract. International and domestic rates will be determined appropriately. Additionally, international vacations will only be paid for up to two duty periods that fall outside of the vacation, as prescribed in the contract.

There are exceptions. Any IDs that overlap into the new month will be pulled back into the bid month when the vacation go right up to the end of the month. However, in situations where the vacation overlaps into the next month, instead of splitting the pay between the two months, again the program will pull the entire overlapping ID  pay back into the bid month. Additonally, the program is capable of addressing the pay for only one vacation in a month. It will neither display nor calculate a situation where there are two vacations in the same month.We realize and understand that these scenarios are not correct according to the contract. But we will ned to wait until a subsequent upgrade is released in order to address these situations.