Thread: What would you value your flight benefits at?

I am considering a job change to a non-airline company and am trying to guage how much of a salary increase would it take to be worth giving up flight benefits.

I am 15 years from retirement; am a family of four and take about 8 domestic trips and 1 international trip per year (entire family).

The 8 domestic trips / 1 international trip (I get free domestic coach travel per my seniority at AA), I would estimate being worth about $20K / year (for four tickets, not all purchased at the last minute).

What about the loss of retirement benefits? We're talking about potentially 25+ years of travel x 2 (husband included!), as retirees (i.e., probably even more trips). At the same time, if I am considered "underpaid" and could make $20K or more / year over the next 15 years, wouldn't it be worth it? Would it be worth it for 10K / year more? 15K? What's the "break-even" point?

I would add that my new job would require a lot of travel (i.e., FF miles would rack up).

Any thoughts?