Originally Posted by
NYC Pilot
Pilots are severely under compensated for the responsibility involved. Pay should definately be elevated to physician compensation. These careers involve life and death decisions. I'm speaking all across the board not just the majors. Having said that, the compensation at the majors is decent but can be better and include better pension options.
I'm not sure the pay right now is significantly different than a doctors'.
At the end of a bachelor's degree, a doctor will go on to medical school for another 3-4 years. A pilot will become a CFI for 2 years.
A doctor will then have residency and have to move up through the ranks thereafter. By that time the pilot should be a regional captain looking. Before the doctor's out of residency the pilot should be looking to become an FO at a major.