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>> buy in to this crazy scheme under promise that they will be making hundreds of thousands of dollars salary ten or twenty years down the road. FWIW, that's h
by runako 13y ago
>> buy in to this crazy scheme under promise that they will be making hundreds of thousands of dollars salary ten or twenty years down the road.
FWIW, that's how most careers work: juniors make small money, seniors make much more. Tech is an outlier in that new grads often make a substantial fraction of the terminal salary for the field. (Which makes some sense given the rampant ageism in hiring.)
- TheAnimus 13y agoBut if you study now, you are going to have $150k of debt just for your full license and maybe one larger type rating. Any jet time and that number will rise very quickly. I hear from my US pilot friends, that they also must have a college education too. Compare that to the UK, where training costs more, but is often paid by the company in exchange for 5 years, the wages are a lot higher. In the US, my instructor was charging pretty much minimum wage, he needed the hours, he was a very good instructor. In the UK I've had terrible instructors who are still demanding $80 per hour. (And some great retired old timers who do it for free, the love of the antique planes!) The US is very lucky, there is a massive military that pumps out trained pilots, some even with ATP, I think this is one of the reasons why they have been able to pay so little. However the rest of the world pays more.
- JanezStupar 13y agoSure at a glance... But once you start looking into it... The proportions are completely insane for the pilots.