Just looking to gauge things these days...

Since the new United pay scale, I wanted to know what it was like before people weren't getting paid as much as they should. Not looking for an argument about who pays best or pay better. But what was it like in the golden days?

I talked to and old us air guy. He said the quote was "6 dollars a minute"

Flew with a guy said he did the shuttle BOS-LGA and that's it. Made 270k before 9/11. After made 140k.

So what was it like back then. What were the pay scales?