Welcome to Flightinfo.com

  • Register now and join the discussion
  • Friendliest aviation Ccmmunity on the web
  • Modern site for PC's, Phones, Tablets - no 3rd party apps required
  • Ask questions, help others, promote aviation
  • Share the passion for aviation
  • Invite everyone to Flightinfo.com and let's have fun

Matthew Berson Salary $33,750

Welcome to Flightinfo.com

  • Register now and join the discussion
  • Modern secure site, no 3rd party apps required
  • Invite your friends
  • Share the passion of aviation
  • Friendliest aviation community on the web

planejockey

Well-known member
Joined
Oct 9, 2005
Posts
153
Ohh man this guy must be a Capt! he is making some cash. Another blow to our career has been achieved when an AIRLINE PILOT responsible for lives makes the same wage as a shoe shiner and the "dead animal operator". FYI TSA agents at year 4 make 31K without overtime and not including benefits. Average longevity for an FO in the "new" airline world of E190s, I would venture to say is about 3 years. (Who looks like the uneducated one?)


Matthew Berson - Regional Airline Pilot - Salary $33,750
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/salaries/
 
My special ed teacher never looked like the one there....

Brooke Kohlhorst

(28)
Special Education Teacher
Charles County
$52,549
 
Planejockey, here's some advice: Don't just do something, SIT THERE!

I've had the pleasure of working with Matt as a CA on the line, and in the sim on a checkride. There's a short list of guys I'd want riding shotgun in either scenario, and he's at the top. He's grossly underpaid.

One Matt on Colgan 3407 would have saved them. That's a harsh and unescapable reality. He's brilliant, he has all his sh!t in one sock professionally, he can fly the fizzle out of a Dash-8, and he could be making an order of magnitude greater than what he earns now if he didn't have the same disease you and I have- the dumbass notion to drive planes for a living. That means you and I- he's worth more than I, and I'm supremely confident the same applies to you.

Beyond the line and everything else, I'd lay down 5 broad coppers (look them up, I have 20, will spare 5) he does more work for his pilot group than you do.

To collect, put your name and picture on FI.com in a new thread, along with salary and the means to prove you're you.
 
I have a couple questions about some of the clowns on this list:

-What the hell does the "U.S. House Sargeant-At-Arms" actually do? Get Pelosi her box of snuff? Really-that much money for a doorman?

-And Please, Please, someone tell me who that idiot is who has a $0 salary for being s "Shadow Senator." Is that somewhat like being a "shadow-first-man-on-the-moon?" How about a "shadow-Christopher-Columbus" or maybe a "Shadow Jesus Christ?"

-Dammit-this is starting to make my head hurt-time to go and get a "Non-Shadow" beer.
 
Average longevity for an FO in the "new" airline world of E190s, I would venture to say is about 3 years. (Who looks like the uneducated one?)


Matthew Berson - Regional Airline Pilot - Salary $33,750
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/salaries/

3 Years??? Are you kidding me? Just ask the countless FO's at Comair, Eagle and Horizon. There are FO's at those places with more experience than some Continental Captains! 10 years rotting in the right seat of an RJ is unconscionable. Our union is pathetic. There are ways to correct this travesty. One way is to require any new regional contract to contain a stipulation that states if a pilot does not have the seniority to upgrade to Captain after 3 years (a reasonable amount of time to "pay your dues") then the pay rate goes to 4th year CA and remains frozen there until the FO has the seniority to upgrade to CA. Then his pay will snap up to whatever year his seniority is at the CA pay rate. For some airlines this would be a moot point as you can upgrade by the time you reach your 3rd year. But it would allow those who are rotting away in the right seat at the aforementioned airlines to at least earn a livable wage, one that can at least be considered within the realm of professional. It's still bad enough these FO's, even with the higher pay, still won't be able to gain the PIC time to get the hell out of this abhorrent regional industry.

This seems fair to me. After all, consider how much money the airlines are saving by transferring all of these routes once flown by mainline pilots in 727, 737, F100, and DC9s for a decent wage, over to the 2 bit regionals flown by pilots with just a fraction of the pay, benefits, QOL, and retirement these mainline pilots once had. It seems reasonable to spread some of that saving to the pilot group that now no longer has a career path to the Majors because of this transfer of flying and will be stuck at the puke regionals for their entire careers with 10+ years in the right seat at some of those outfits.

Ok, now get ready for all the pro management scum to defend this industry's current pay structure. Pathetic!!
 
That guy's only had one full year at PDT. Compare that salary to most other regionals and it's much higher. Just goes to show that hourly pay rate is not the be-all-end-all to contracts. PDT is bad, but it isn't as bad as most regionals out there. Especially considering our planes are 1/3 the size of many other "regional" planes being flown for less money. No wonder we are shrinking.
 

Latest resources

Back
Top