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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I always thought pilots were highly paid. Minimum wage? That's what I made in the bookstore. Sounds weird to me.
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many of the most senior captains are paid very well.
However, for the first 10-15 years of your airline career - near minimum wage is the standard.
I worked for a regional airline for 3 years, and my advertised pay scale was about $21 $22.50 and $23.50 per flight hour.
the key word of course is "per flight hour" - you are only being paid for flight time.
so given a 14 hour duty day, you may only fly 5 hours.
Consider the following statistics which i dont mind sharing with you
Year One Earnings: $18,500 ($21 x 881 flight hours)
average days / month on duty: 16 days
average hours on duty per day: 13 hours
average hours on duty per month: 208 hours
average hours on duty per year one: 2496 hours
Hourly wage based upon number of hours actually on duty:
$18.500 divided by 2496 =
$7.41/hr
using this formula... year 2 and year 3 were about a $1 hourly rate increase each year