Pilot Pay

[CRJ's suck]

Although I don't agree with all airlines pay being the same, I still don't see a good reason for pilots at the same airline to make different wages. No one else does this. I as a mechanic don't get paid more for working on one of my airlines bigger planes nor do I get paid less for worker on a smaller one. Just bring the smaller guys up in pay and the bigger guys down in pay so everyone makes the same.

 

[ERJFO]

Standard pay isn't sh%t without standard work rules i.e. contract.

 

[COOPERVANE]

. Would I be happy with only 4 pay increases over the span of my career? Absolutely, because as a regional FO I wouldn't have to worry about making ends meet, and I would be able to start saving earlier, and investing earlier. I want to be a millionare by the time I'm 60, and the way it is right now, staying at my regional airline for my career, thats going to be tough, and it shouldn't.quote]

WHAT?, WHAT?

You must be 19 and living in your parents basement. Let me guess you have a $350/month Camero payment and thats it!!

Good luck with that millionaire thing. Have fun when you turn 30 and realize that it's NOT gonna happen.

Reminds me of the recent engineer graduate who says "I now make 50K a year, since I live with my parents, I am going to invest 30k of it and be a millionaire by the time I'm 50!!" yeah, that works

You are a TARD!!!

 

[acaTerry]

D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'ANGELO,
Where do I begin?...
You need to spend more time in this job. More effort, and see after you finally claw your way up to that 777 (IF you ever even get close, the way things are now), and THEN give your opinion on why junior, entry-level aircraft should pay more.
You can take shots at your fellow pilots all you want, but the fact is that no other job is paying less today than it was 20 years ago....
ALPO has no teeth, the airlines are killing eachother, and now we have our own brethren calling eachother greedy. Sorry, but it is YEARS of poor management, not pilots, that has wrought this headache to come.
Don't try the Business 101 arguement "oh, labor is the most expensive thing..."
Airlines are a SERVICE business, and in almost every single SERVICE business, labor is always the high cost. Its the business model.
Again, please, after you sweat a little more in this job, then feel free to say that 777 pilots are overpaid.

 

[CRJ's suck]

Airlines are a SERVICE business, and in almost every single SERVICE business, labor is always the high cost. Its the business model.
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Correction, airlines used to be a service business.

 

[Gr82Aviate]

Airlines are a SERVICE business, and in almost every single SERVICE business, labor is always the high cost. Its the business model.
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Correction, airlines used to be a service business.

Labor is no longer the "high cost", fuel is!

 

[Regul8r]

Although I don't agree with all airlines pay being the same, I still don't see a good reason for pilots at the same airline to make different wages. No one else does this. I as a mechanic don't get paid more for working on one of my airlines bigger planes nor do I get paid less for worker on a smaller one. Just bring the smaller guys up in pay and the bigger guys down in pay so everyone makes the same.

Survey says...DENIED!!!

You're comparing apples and oranges, it's much more demanding to be a pilot.

 

[CRJ's suck]

Survey says...DENIED!!!

You're comparing apples and oranges, it's much more demanding to be a pilot.

Maybe you should re-read my post.....did I say pilots and mechanics should make the same??? No I didn't. The post wasn't about pilot pay rates vs. mechanic pay rates.

When comparing pilots at one carrier, i'm comparing apples to apples. UPS has one pay scale for all fleet types, and last i checked, alot of people want to go fly there. So where's the problem with all carriers having there own payscale for all fleet types?

And as for being a pilot being more demanding. Survey says...DENIED!!!
Different jobs, different headaches, different responsibilities, BOTH are demanding.

 

[arthompson]

Midwest has a single pay scale for it's fleet types as well. It has the advantage of different pilots on different equipment not trying to sell each other out at contract time.

 

[Regul8r]

Maybe you should re-read my post.....did I say pilots and mechanics should make the same??? No I didn't. The post wasn't about pilot pay rates vs. mechanic pay rates.

You're line of reasoning used to arrive at the conclusion (to paraphrase); because aircraft size does not matter to mechanics pay, it shouldn't matter to pilot's pay, is flawed.

And as for being a pilot being more demanding. Survey says...DENIED!!! Different jobs, different headaches, different responsibilities, BOTH are demanding.

An ATC controller once told me "If I screw up, I'm still going home at the end of the day." Same goes for a Doctor, a Lawyer, an Investment Banker, and a Mechanic (Unless said mechanic is on an mx run.) If a pilot screws up, it's his butt along with the passengers. Maybe you guys should be getting paid more.