"Rachel" wrote in message ...
.Blueskies. wrote:
"Rachel" wrote in message ...

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.



Used to be at the airport 6 days a week for roughly 12 hours each day. Flew 6 or so hours/day. Loved it but only
lasted a couple years...

Read an article about some feeder line that paid the newbie pilots something like $12,500 the first year...and the
pilots paid them something like $10,000 for the type rating.

How do you propose that CFIs demand enough money to make a career out of it? CFIs are paid what the market will bear,
no more...

Yeah, and that's because most people view instructing as a necessary evil instead of a possible career.

Just like the teachers at the local schools - who is going to pay them what they are worth? Maybe someday...