Here is how I figure it. The median lineworker makes 26$/Hr. 25% hazzard pay bonus is only payable when the helo is flying so slow it can not autorotate down. The jack booted managment pricks will come back at you saying flying is safer than climbing or traveling in a skidder bucket. Estimate 26*1.25 is $32.5 per hour or it could go as high as $40.
Here is where I get my numbers from Pedro.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos195.htm#earnings
Earnings for line installers and repairers are higher than those in most other occupations that do not require postsecondary education. Median hourly earnings for electrical power-line installers and repairers were $24.41 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $18.73 and $28.90. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $13.96, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $34.20. Median hourly earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of electrical power-line installers and repairers in May 2006 are shown below:
Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution $25.90
Wired telecommunications carriers 24.82
Local government 23.06
Building equipment contractors 22.04
Utility system construction 19.29
Many line installers and repairers belong to unions, principally the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and the Utility Workers Union of America. For these workers, union contracts set wage rates, wage increases, and the time needed to advance from one job level to the next.
Good health, education, and vacation benefits are common in the occupation.
It looks like the Feds will give you 25% bonus for hazzard pay:
http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/ibp/person...%20Flights.doc Flying. Individuals, except pilots, who are participating in limited control or low-level flights.
The hazard pay is related to the use of the aircraft not the work of the occupants. If the flight is undertaken under unusual and adverse conditions which threaten or severely limit control of the aircraft, then hazard pay is warranted. Hazard pay is not authorized for situations such as flying passengers from a work center to a location to fix equipment and when there are no adverse conditions that threaten or severely limit the aircraft.
http://training.fws.gov/Admin/Fire/t.../chapter1H.pdf