Delta’s New Deferred Comp Plan: Smart Move or Tax Trap?

2025-10-09

✈️ Retire Pilots the Right Way! 🎁 Grab your FREE Retirement Toolkit now → https://d74164fb.pages.infusionsoft.net/ Delta Airlines has rolled out a new non-qualified deferred compensation plan for pilots, and it’s raising big questions across the flight deck. To help us all better understand what this means, we’ve invited Zach Smith of Pilot Tax to break down how it works and whether it’s a smart financial move. Before you opt in, make sure you understand the risks, rewards, and long-term implications of this new Delta offer...

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Delta Airlines has rolled out a new non-qualified deferred compensation plan for pilots, and it’s raising big questions across the flight deck. To help us all better understand what this means, we’ve invited Zach Smith of Pilot Tax to break down how it works and whether it’s a smart financial move. Before you opt in, make sure you understand the risks, rewards, and long-term implications of this new Delta offering.

Here’s what we cover in this episode:

✈️ The details about Delta’s new deferred comp plan

💵 Potential tax benefit by deferring income into lower-tax years

⚠️ The risk of overloading your pre-tax retirement bucket

💰 How fixed income in retirement affects Medicare

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