Originally Posted by
Chimpy
Just came across this on the AA/USAirways thread.
This is "average compensation", does this really include F/Os? , I wonder what ours is? Probably sub $120,000 if you include all of our F/Os Pretty sad when the average NJ State Trooper can easily pull in $180,000.00 and here we as Professional Airline pilots are struggling to break 85k as F/Os and need to be top of the scale to to make $200k as Captains.
Crack is Whack...Sorry, had to raise the BS flag on that one, I have a family member that was a trooper for 29 years and I knew that number was far from correct.
From the NJ hiring site, "The current starting salary for a trooper is $62,403.60 (including uniform allowance). The second-year total compensation significantly increases to $69,489.30. Top pay for a Trooper I is $108,847.13. Troopers receive yearly increments." I will say that NJ actually pays well in that regard though. Starting pay in my home state for a trooper is about 42,000
On another note that chart is sad and I am now going to sob into my beer.