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> A few paragraphs down they mentioned the starting salary at regional airlines: $26000 That may be the starting salary in some places, but keep in mind that m
by coryfklein 9y ago
> A few paragraphs down they mentioned the starting salary at regional airlines: $26000
That may be the starting salary in some places, but keep in mind that median salary is closer to $100-120k. Starting pilots either are unaware of the longer-term salary, or that longer-term salary is still too low in comparison to other professions with similar characteristics.
- bzbarsky 9y ago> but keep in mind that median salary is closer to $100-120k Not at regional airlines. According to http://work.chron.com/average-salary-regional-airline-pilot-5985.html http://work.chron.com/average-salary-regional-airline-pilot-... $26k is typical entry-level, $55k is average once you get promoted to captain, and the top of the range is about $60k as of 2012. If you get picked up by a major airline, the numbers look quite different, and the median in 2016 across all airlines in the US was about $128k according to https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Transportation-and-Material-Moving/Airline-and-commercial-pilots.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Transportation-and-Material-Moving/A... so presumably a lot of people have in fact made the move from regional to major in the past. What the future prospects of that happening are is not clear.