Originally Posted by
John Carr
Forgive the formatting. UAL C2000...
...At contract's end 2004 IIRC/max rates each seat;
737-200 FO-154.75 CA-226.58
Airbus FO-173.48 CA-253.99
767 FO-180.91 CA-264.87
744 FO-243.03 CA-355.82
So adjusted for inflation, the highest hourly rate post-1978 was at United and about
$446/hour. Like Gone Flying and others, I'd love to know more about pre-Deregulation if anyone has that data. Numbers I've heard range from half a million to $926,000 (thanks Phoenix). But if someone has substantive data, please please share. If we're going by the "Cadillac standard," a new CTS runs a little over $45,000, so you'd be looking at ~$550,000 a year.
Originally Posted by
Mesabah
You need to look at historical pay as a percentage of revenue, otherwise you won't know how much the company is stealing from you. Historically, pilot pay was 10-15% or revenue, today, at companies like Delta, pay is 3-4% of revenue. Thus, pay has to go up around 500% for you to be making a fair wage that has been with most pilots through the decades. In comparison, top executive pay is up 4000+% over the same time period.
This is also a smart post.