Originally Posted by SeamusTheHound

For typical airline pilots, you can generally count on being paid for 1000 hours in a year. So $40 per hour is only $40 grand.

But that pay is flight hours, so don't think that it means you'll simply be able to work a "20 hour week" for that. When you measure it in terms of "Time Away From Base," which is how many hours your car is in the parking lot (and you are away from home), the numbers get much worse. You'll spend an average of three hours away from base for every hour of flight pay. The rest is unpaid time between flights or at hotels.

So expect to be gone up to 300 hours a month, or 70 hours per week (and that's if you DON'T commute), for your 100 hours of flight pay.

Hope that helps.