Wholly cow! ATC and PAY

[fracpt]

I kinda knew this with a friend that starte in ATC at age 30 and by 35 makes 100k and has to retire making 150k per/yr at age 55. - With all of the ATC issues ? They stated today the average controller makes 163k per year and spends every night at home. I know the public thinks we pilots (corporate, regionals etc ) make all over 100k (BS) but what is our average and by what age? and how much did we spend in training? all I can say is WOW!!!!! Sorry had to vent and I would never give up my flyiing job but again WOW!

 

[Whine Lover]

This just in...."Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor".



YKW

 

[dicko]

They stated today the average controller makes 163k per year and spends every night at home. !

Not all of them apparently ..... Some spend the night at work napping.

 

[Bake]

This just in...."Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor".



YKW

I thought it was the Germans?

 

[clr4theapch]

Hmm...your just finding this out?? It's been that way for a long time.. have you seem the lines of applicants trying to get in.. the failed PUBNABs.. Very tough to get in, then the 3 years of training before your signed off..

Goverment work at its finest.. however I don't think the "average" controller make near that.. my understand from a recent friend, is they start around $59K and are about $100K in 8 years.. still good.. but they don't have the view you guys get..

 

[screwed]

Funny how ATC naps on the job and the remedy is to hire more controllers and work on the rest rules. When Pilots nap and over fly airports, the remedy is to fire them, talk about new rest rules but do nothing.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Was "Holy" too sarcilegious?

 

[ACL65PILOT]

There are some NYC controllers that make over 220K a year with over time.

My neighbor in Georgia is doing so well that he bought a farm behind us. He and his wife live in the farm, and he is letting his sister live in the house rent free.

The other controller in the neighborhood is spending gobs of money on redoing their backyard, deck, etc while everyone else is planting the blue light specials.

My close personal friend in Dallas works five shifts over four days, picks up a few here and there and clears 180K. Could have retired at 42 but is waiting until his child graduates college, and then he will be looking at a very nice full funded retirement. Get this no college degree. Only became a controller when the Navy asked him if he wanted to.

 

[pilotgolfer]

Hmm...your just finding this out?? It's been that way for a long time.. have you seem the lines of applicants trying to get in.. the failed PUBNABs.. Very tough to get in, then the 3 years of training before your signed off..

Goverment work at its finest.. however I don't think the "average" controller make near that.. my understand from a recent friend, is they start around $59K and are about $100K in 8 years.. still good.. but they don't have the view you guys get..

I think it depends a lot on where you are working. A guy from one of my many new hire classes is working at Hartsfield Tower and that pays a heck of a lot more than if you were working a smaller satellite airport. He makes great money, but he says the constant stress sucks and he would gladly go back to flying at first opportunity. When he finished his OJT towards the end of the first year, I think he was making 100K with another raise on the horizon.

 

[clr4theapch]

wow.. I guess my info was outdated.. were all in the wrong end of the dog..