Obama salutes George Bush's promised end of US combat

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

As someone who has shoveling sh*t AND dodging thunderstorms in an ice loaded airplane at FL250 then flying an ILS approach to minimums after 8 hours of flying spread out over a 14 hour duty day both on my resume... i respectfully disagree.

But clearly the market is setting the salaries at the level the market can handle. I thought that was what you liked?

Is the government, somehow, mandating low salaries for regional pilots?

I know this is your industry and, of course, you think it should have a large salary. I think analysts like me should earn $250,000 per year. But guess what? The market sets my salary the same as it sets the salaries of most people.

If it were up to me, I would wave my magic wand and pay every airline pilot $100K+ for their job is skilled and requires a lot of experience to keep people safe. But I don't have a magic wand, all I have is a (almost) free market which sets your and my salaries.

We often think we are worth much more than our bosses do.