Are those monthly salaries? Seriously, wages will vary, but
a Captain for an airline should earn $40,000-75,000 annually
and a co-pilot about half of that as a starting salary.
Corporate jobs may even pay more but require more hours and
extra certificates such as A&P.

Bag boys make over $20,000 stuffing bread into "paper or
plastic" at the market. Pilots need to learn to insist on a
proper wage, but damn it is so much fun to fly.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"Rachel" wrote in message
. ..
| wrote:
| "And that is why I'm happily pushing paper as a
non-wrenching A&P while
|
| most of my friends are living 8 to an apartment and
flying CRJ's.
| Maybe
| I don't have a severe enough case of the flying disease,
I don't
| know... "
|
| I left commuter flying 10 years ago when I went for a
ground job
| (dispatcher) for financial survival. Are commuter
pilots still making
| next to nothing today still? Even with those nice new
CRJ's ??
|
| I have a friend who is a captain (can't remember which
airline right
| now) and is making somewhere around $40,000, which isn't
too bad. The
| other guys I know who are flying right seat in turboprops
are making
| $17,000-$22,000. I don't know if that's next to nothing,
but I know I'd
| have to give up a lot on that kind of money.