AE Hiring 400TT/85ME/$20,000 get a job!!!!
A 2007 thread? Well, as long as we're talking about yesteryear; my first airline gig was $12 and change/hr. I think perdiem was nonexistent. And that was getting hired with around 2,000 hours. No pay until checkride, but at least they paid for the double-occupancy hotel during training. My current airline I almost had 3,000 when hired, and it felt like rags to riches when my pay went to $19/hr plus perdiem and fully paid during training in my own hotel room.
Then they hired people with just over 500 hours.
Now they're throwing money, benefits and travel privileges at them.
Took almost 20 years, but what a difference.
Truly food stamp territory back in the day. Not anymore.