Ever wonder what a airline pilot is paid?

[RED]

Here you are!

American Airlines executives are under pressure to match or beat the pay terms Delta Air Lines gave its pilots earlier this year ? a 34% raise over a four-year contract. AA has offered a four-year deal that includes a 21% pay bump in the first year. Including higher profit-sharing and 401(k) retirement contributions, by the end of the contract pilots who fly narrower planes would earn $475,000 a year, while senior pilots flying wide-body planes would make $590,000 a year,


Now you know!

[Allen]

Sounds good but it's not a life for everyone. From what I hear pilots have to live out of their suitcases and get little rest between flights. Then, while flying they have their SHTF moments too.

One of my previous jobs I worked at briefly was Continental Motors who made 4 and 6 cylinder aircraft engines. They encouraged us to get a pilots license and would reimburse us for the fees if we did. As tempting as it was the thoughts of a micro burst or other unpredictable weather phenomenon kept me from following through.

[RED]

My son drives locomotives. He is gone 2-3 nights a week and has very little time off. He earns about 25% of the airline pilot while accidental deaths are far more frequent than in the airlines.

quote:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a10450/death-on-the-railroad-16675879/

[dryheat]

Good post Red. You wonder what are the odds that you will be caught on the crossing when a train is a quarter mile away. It's like the lottery only in reverse: someone is going to get killed, but it probably won't be you. But is the crossing always vacant when a train goes by? Mostly. Could a person walk the Earth their entire lifetime and never step on an ant. The ants are there and people walk a lot.

[barretcreek]

Beginning pilots flying the local hops were paid very little. Had a friend got his license, signed on with United on their regional second tier routes. Living on his sister's couch in Denver, on a one hour (?) call for no pay and was making convenience store wages while in line to fly the big birds. Went with Fish&Game in a western state as a pilot.
May have gotten better but twenty years ago I flew second tier from SC to Chicago and the two pilots looked like high school kids. Uniforms fitted as though they were grabbed off of a rack in a locker room.

When I was out in Diego Garcia the CO of the C5A squadron told me he would only fly for the airlines if he couldn't make thirty years.