Downside? Biter cold desert in winter. Upside legal commercial vag close by.

LFN will pay for 100% of the employee's medical, dental, and vision. The benefits don't cost as much as with Air Methods for premiums for spouse and dependents, but the insurance coverage isn't out of this world. Adding spouse and dependents are additional. They also claim to have top end pay, but in reality it is mediocre at best. The way they calculate your base pay is your total number of EMS year flow + 1/2 of any other helicopter time = base starting pay. Starting VFR pay is $92k I believe and $100k for IFR. HR loves to put that they give almost 4 weeks of PTO per year, but that's only if you work an office job and take 8hrs of PTO for a day off. For 12hr shifts you get 12 days a year (152hrs) starting off and for the first 5yrs accrude per paycheck. No sick time. 

Negotiate upfront as much as you can since you will never be able to go back and get anything more from them. Annual step increases are also just 1.68%. So, if they decide to not give a cost of living raise, then all you're guaranteed is 1.68% 

The LFN insurance premium is about $6-7k less per year as I recall when AMC offered me a job several years ago.

Middle management is good. This higher up you go though, the more 'yes men' inhabit management. Not the worst I've worked for. 

So you get credit for EMS years and 1/2 other years flying helicopter. Got that, but how do you add that to the base pay of say theIFR $100,000? Is it a certain $$ amount per year? Do they have a pay scale. Can you provide some refernece to base it on? Thank you

The $100k IFR base pay is based off of job postings I've seen on our interal website. Same with the VFR base pay. The IFR bonus is actually the only really good thing about the pay because it is actually an hourly bump. So, if you do a workover shift you get 1.5x your entire base pay and not a pay cut because an IFR stipend is just month. LFN HR has a pay scale, but it isn't available because they don't want it to be. 

Also, for the Float pilot position there is also a pay increase and a $30k sign-on bonus. But there is a lot of traveling and the pay increase doesn't really make it finacially worth the random schedule. You could work 3 days here and 2 days there and 2 more days somewhere else. Management tries to keep you in one location for 7 shifts in a row, but that's never guaranteed and it also could change last minute. So, until you have your 7 shifts done in a 14 days period, you could consider yourself on-call.

Pay is not as good as some companies but better than others.  Overall the culture is nice.  Seems that the turnover is less than most companies.  Though they are smaller so its hard to comapre the numbers....  The 100% employee medical is awesome for the civilian pilots...  If you work far north or east bring a parka for 4 months per year.... if you work on the west side bring an umbrella.