Rachel wrote:

Jim Macklin wrote:

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.


LOL, no, yearly. I think I should have clarified that my captain friend
is making 40K a year flying CRJ's for a regional, and he just upgraded
(why can't I remember the airline???). The guys I know making 20K are
just out of school commercial pilots with 300 hours.

And don't get me started on the CFI's I know. I hate that most don't
take instructing seriously enough to demand enough money to make a
career out of it.

My first job flying (other than CFI) paid $800 / month (early 70s). It
was a right seat job and required loading / unloading cargo five + days
or nights a week. The job gave me experience and hours but there was
little joy flying that way.

My college roomate went into the Air Force and got his hours that way.
After a successful airline career, he retired.