> 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-pilo

> 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.