Salary comparison.

[bart]

In case you were curious what bus drivers make... The Bus Driver working in GA - Atlanta now earns an average salary of 28,334. Half of those in this position would earn between 20,027 and 34,015 (the 17th and 67th percentiles). These numbers are derived from real, area specific, survey data.

When benefits and bonuses are added to this salary, the average total compensation for this position would be 33,635. The report below also explains how the cost-of-living in this location affects the actual value of this salary.

More detailed information on salary, benefits and cost-of-living is available below. Estimates as of 10-May-2003. Currency in United States Dollars.

 

[B-J-J Fighter]

Bart are you still flying for a living?

 

[katanabob]

What are the requirements to be a bus driver in Atlanta?

 

[WrightAvia]

I don't care what you say...

hauling people sucks.

I can beat MR/MS Atlanta bus driver, if not in wages...schedule and I fly a single engine turbine. I bet if I got off of my lazy ass and got an ATP, a TYPE and a few hours in type, I could easily triple if not double the wages given a government slacky driving a bus.

Are you trying to compare COMMUTER WAGES to bus drivers? That doesn't count. It's like oranges and apples. Nobody grows up WANTING to be a CITY bus driver. Nobody grows up willing to spend 80 to 100 grand to BE a CITY bus driver. But tell a buncha white boys they can be HOOT GIBSON for 80 to 100 grand...look out Daisy Mae!

Bus driver, COMMUTER PILOT. Apples and oranges.

Hey, while you're at it...I knew FIELD SERVICE TECHNICIANS that made 90 grand a year. They can't drive a bus or fly a plane...but they can sure make a slitter/scoring machine sing. I'm thinking of starting a PFT FIELD SERVICE TECHNICIAN SCHOOL...but they already have that...it's called TECH SCHOOL!

 

[WrightAvia]

and I forgot to add in the factor...

that it's more likely that the city bus driver will be murdered on the job for pocket change, than I will.

 

[avbug]

Doesn't seem fair, does it? Really, sort of backward. Anybody who thinks that highly of themselves really ought to stand a better chance of getting murdered, than a bus driver.

What are the differences? Well, one is that the bus driver isn't stupid enough to spend eighty grand to get his job. Learning to fly doesn't cost that much, so if you spent it...the numbers really speak for themselves. Especially considering you'll need a lot of seniority and a lot of years to be making that back at any regional.

Now in many places, the bus driver does a very necessary job. You'd be in a world of hurt if the public sanitation workers, the bus drivers, your plumber or mechanic, anybody that you seem to be above, quit. So you get payed a bit more. That just means you ought to be a little more grateful, not more holier than thou.

Nobody wants to be a bus driver? How about the son of a bus driver? Being a regional driver doesn't make you hoot gibson, either. It doesn't even make you glamorous. It just makes you fortunate to have a job...a routine job which isn't really the epitomy of flash or excitement...and doesn't always pay better than the lowly city bus driver...does it? (No).

As for the field service technician who attends school to learn his trade...you really believe that's any comparison to paying for one's job? As you seem ready to drop eighty grand to get your training (and apparently buy a job, as nobody spends eighty grand getting their basic certification unless they need to be re-soloed several thousand times), does that mean you paid for your job too?

Any pilot who thinks he or she is worth any more, or is a better person because he or she drives an airplane around is in desperate need of humbling. You're a spitwad on the ceiling of humanity, just like every other soul. You share the same mind, the same organs, the same needs. You're no better than the next. Neither am I, neither is another soul here.

If you're flying scheduled, the truth is that you are a bus driver...you're just fortunate to be doing it the way you enjoy. Did you ever stop to think that perhaps the person struggling to raise their family on their bus driver wages might actually like their life, too?

 

[DesertFalcon]

You're a spitwad on the ceiling of humanity, just like every other soul.

Wow! This is very colorful speech; You should be a writer!

I guess when we die our SPITWAD falls, off of the ceiling, onto the Floor of GOD! RIGHT?

 

[gopherflight]

...Do bus drivers get riding privileges on other companies busses?

 

[LearLove]

"...Do bus drivers get riding privileges on other companies busses?"

Yes, but offline busriders cannot occupy a seat in the first row as the company providing the ride may not be able to verify if said busrider is a terrorist or not. Some contractor bus company drivers may not be welcome in some wholly owned bus seats.

 

[WrightAvia]

actually...

I wasn't picking on either bus driver or commuter pilot. Just making ludicrust satire. But the spitball on the ceiling thing...yea! I LIKE that...cept I made it onto the CIELING FAN of a GREASY SPOON restaurant and ah gets oh so dizzy some times. I hope when I fall off (DIE), I land in some gubbment worker's mash potatoes and meatloaf blue plate luncheon special...

 

[Flying Illini]

as long as you stay behind the white line and don't disturb your driver you can do whatever you want...

 

[SkyWestCRJPilot]

And buses are the ultimate "low cost" carrier at an average $1.25 a fare!

 

[avbug]

And here I thought I was the only one that liked the meatloaf. Ever wonder what really goes into it?

 

[HAZ-MAT]

Thats it... go to the back of the bus