And the most overpaid job is....

[JetMonkey]

I'd bet after saving his a$$ in a life or death inflight emergency, he'd think I don't get paid enough!

 

[8v8ter]

The relative "high" pay we receive is not for what we do now flying state of the art equipment, but for the years of training and gathering experience flying crappy dangerous stuff to be qualified to fly the easy stuff now.

 

[Hamfighter]

Pilot vs. EMT? I became an EMT taking a class a couple nights a week at the local junior college over the summer of my senior year of high school. Not quite a fair comparison of required training and skills.

 

[JumpersAway]

I'd say the ultimate guage of whether a job pays too much, or too little is this..............

If you have one job, and 10 applicants, it pays too much.

If you have 10 jobs, and only 1 applicant, then it doesn't pay enough. This is where we are headed, so I think it's pretty much self explainatory.

 

[ASA_Aviator]

I'd say the ultimate guage of whether a job pays too much, or too little is this..............

If you have one job, and 10 applicants, it pays too much.

If you have 10 jobs, and only 1 applicant, then it doesn't pay enough. This is where we are headed, so I think it's pretty much self explainatory.

I don't think we are headed there. The regionals are headed there, but the majors aren't going to have a problem. It just won't be as lopsided. Even now, Delta has thousands of applications on file, and they aren't even hiring!

 

[C-150ETOPS]

Well, besides the fact that the whole premise if that article is stupid, they aren't completely wrong. We do make a lot in exchange for the amount of work we do. I think most people that don't realize this haven't ever been "out there" in a non aviation job.

I'm not complaining...but we have a lot to be thankful for.

There is a piece of paper in my jet, a statement of required insurance coverage in dollars for the possible damages the asset I am in direct control of may cause to people and property.

The number?

$1 Billion dollars.

Give me some salary numbers for the people "out there" with direct control of an asset like that. Please don't include the endless positions where the legal team, the tech reps, the actuaries, the paralegals, stenographers, the main office and a million other committees can come in a day or even a week later to fix the original #### ups of someone described as "in charge" of an asset "out there". We don't get days or even a week. Our timeline is what is in the fuel tanks.


I am thankful for alot of things, especially living in this country.

cheers

 

[HA25]

You are misinformed on the compensation packages of cops, firefighters and teachers.

in the SF bay area, those are all 6 figure jobs..

 

[jetlag7]

We do make a lot in exchange for the amount of work we do.....

We're not getting paid for the "work" part of the equation. We are paid for the experienced decisions we make on a minute by minute basis.

We are the least expensive (yet most effective) piece of safety equipment onboard.