Originally Posted by
Delta1067
What airline starts at $15,000 a year. I made $26,000 my 1st year at a regional and that was back in 1997. Don't 2nd year FO's at most regionals make close to $40 at most regionals these days? Not saying it shouldn't be more but for a job not requiring a degree good luck making $40,000 if you are 20 years old and have no degree. If you wasted $150K at UND or ERAU than that is your own fault. There are much cheaper ways to do it.
You must have worked at horizon, or blocked a lot of soft time.
Most regionals pay $23/flight hour these days (which is about $11/hour for actual time worked, or $8 for small turboprops that do a lot of short legs).
Also if they base you at SFO, LGA, JFK, or other high cost areas you are invariably eating additional commuting costs since it's impractical to live in those areas on $20K/year unless you rent a tent from some illegal farm workers down by the river.