A-Pay Decoder
Decodes a flight attendant's trip pay against the public union contract and flags trips that look credited wrong.
The need
Flight attendant pay has a dozen categories with contract citations behind each one, and the schedule system does not show the math. Upload the trip PDF and see every dollar with its contract clause, plus a pay check that catches miscredits.
What was hard
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In-browser PDF parsing
Roster PDFs are parsed on the device, so pay documents never leave it.
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Screenshot OCR with a read gate
A screenshot read is rejected unless it reconciles with the roster's own printed totals.
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Pure contract pay engine
A framework-free engine models rates, holidays, over-duty, sit pay and day-off incursion, with oracle tests against real roster fixtures.
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Per-trip reconciliation
Each trip is checked against what was actually credited, and mismatches are flagged.
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Month comparison
Month-over-month views match trips that cross a month boundary instead of splitting them.
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Paystub and register parsing
Paystubs and pay registers are parsed so the decoded pay can be compared to what was paid.
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Opt-in diagnostics
Bug reports can include a privacy-scrubbed diagnostics bundle, and only when the user chooses to.