Originally Posted by mike734

I should have said entry level AIRLINE job. I stand corrected. And BTW you don't have hundreds of lives in your hands. You have 50-90. It's a tremendous responsibility but you don't add up the total passengers to get to hundreds. In fact RJ pilots probably carry more total passengers base on the number if flights they make. But you are forgetting, the size of the paycheck is dependent on the size of he hole. (For the most part)

See above. And CFI is still entry level. Probably the lowest level. Should it be? No, but there it is.