Originally Posted by
Columbusohio
I don't know how anyone over the age of 25 takes a job at a regional, the payscales for new hires are just pathetic! This coming from someone that CFI'ed years ago and then flew freight in piston airplanes....I made more doing that back in 2000 than I would at a regional today. Wacky business.
Well, here's a reason: got hired in 2003 at 27 from the CFI world, did indeed make crap pay year one, BUT... Doubled that year two, then upgraded and spent the "lost decade" making 6 figures, my last year clocking $147,000.
Have since moved on to a major, but I'll just say: don't judge a book by its first chapter.