Suspicious Pay · Guide

Set up Sus Pay, step by step.

About ten minutes, once. You'll need your iPhone, your Alaska email and password, and your last paycheck. Sus Pay estimates your pay from your own schedule — it's not your paycheck, it's how you check it.

1. Put your work calendar on your iPhone

Sus Pay reads your trips from the CrewSchedule calendar that comes with your Alaska email. If you already see your trips in Apple's Calendar app, skip to step 2.

1. Open the iPhone Settings app.
2. Tap Apps → Calendar → Calendar Accounts → Add Account.
3. Choose Microsoft Exchange and sign in with your Alaska email and password.
4. Make sure Calendars is switched on for that account.
5. Open Apple's Calendar app and check that your trips appear. It can take a few minutes the first time.

2. Open Sus Pay and set up your pay

The first time you open the app, a short tour explains how it works, then asks four things. You can change any of them later in ≡ → Current Rate.

1. Seniority Date — sets your step on the pay scale, and every raise lands on the right date. Find it in Rainmaker: expand Crew Member Profile and look for Seniority Date. No Rainmaker handy? Use the year and date from your PeopleSoft “Step Progression Pay Increase” email instead.
2. 401(k) — the percentage you contribute.
3. ESPP — the percentage you put into the stock purchase plan, if any.
4. Take-home — from the bottom of your last paycheck, enter Current Total Gross and Current Net Pay.

3. Let Sus Pay read your calendar

1. Tap ≡ (top right) → Current Rate and scroll to Calendar.
2. When iPhone asks, allow calendar access. Sus Pay only reads — it never changes your calendar.
3. Pick your CrewSchedule calendar. If it's the only work calendar, Sus Pay picks it for you.

4. Import your trips

1. On your trips list, tap the calendar button with the plus.
2. Sus Pay shows the trips it found from about three weeks back and months ahead. New ones are ticked.
3. Tap Import. Each trip arrives with its legs, layovers, positions and TFP, and its pay underneath.

Import each trip before you fly it. If flying is taken away from a trip mid-sequence, the calendar simply stops showing it — only a copy saved beforehand remembers what you were scheduled to fly. Importing once the trip appears on your schedule keeps that record.

5. Add premium, if the trip had it

The calendar doesn't show whether a trip is premium, so Sus Pay can't know.

1. Open the trip.
2. Tap Add.
3. Set the multiplier to match your roster — 1.5×, 2×, 2.5× or 3×.

Traded, dropped or canceled a trip?

If a trip leaves your calendar before it starts, it shows under No longer on your schedule the next time you open the import screen. Tap it and pick what happened:

• Swap and Delete — you traded or dropped it. It comes off your month so it isn't counted twice.
• Keep and Pay Protect — the company canceled it. It stays, marked Pay Protected, and pays the way a protected trip does (no boarding or per diem). Changed your mind? Undo is on the trip's pay card.
• Keep for Now — not sure yet. Nothing changes, and it asks again next time.

Once a trip has started, Sus Pay never offers to remove it — a trip that changes mid-sequence may be a reassignment, and the saved copy is your record of it.

Reading your pay

Every pay line is one of three kinds:

• In your total — checked against real Alaska pay and counted.
• Not verified — shown so you know to look, but left out of the total until real pay confirms it.
• Hidden — not right yet, so the app says nothing rather than something misleading.

That makes a total here the conservative one — more likely low than high. ≡ → What's Included lists exactly what the app covers today. Our contract is complex, and more rules are on the way.

Where Sus Pay and your pay disagree, treat it as a question to look into, not proof. Sus Pay doesn't file anything — if you find a shortfall, you claim it the way you always have. It isn't made by, affiliated with or endorsed by Alaska Airlines or AFA.

Troubleshooting

No trips show up

Check Apple's Calendar app first — if your trips aren't there, redo step 1. If they are, check iPhone Settings → Apps → Sus Pay → Calendars is allowed, and that CrewSchedule is picked in ≡ → Current Rate.

A leg's TFP looks wrong

Tap the TFP figure on that leg to correct it. Sus Pay remembers the route for next time.

I got a new phone

Your trips live on your phone, so they move with an iPhone backup and restore. A fresh install without a backup starts empty.

Something else looks wrong

Tap ≡ → Feedback — it opens an email with your app version attached. Or write to lendewugh@icloud.com with the trip number and what you expected to see.