Originally Posted by
Han Solo
*shrug* A LT in the military doesn't make a whole lot more. I looked at my 1st pay stub from '94, my gross monthly pretax earnings were $2100. I graduated in '93 and didn't get picked up for active duty until March so I had 2 months of being unemployed; and after abusing myself for 4.5 years to graduate with an electrical engineering degree from a big 10 school I earned $21k my 1st year out of college. I'm not trying to marginalize what regional pilots go through, but it's not like the military road is all roses and cupcakes.
That was 22 years ago. Ten years later, first O1 pay was $2400/mo + $1100 tax free housing + $190 tax free food allowance +flight pay for pilots. My first year at a regional almost ten years AFTER that was $1900 per mo. No housing. No sustenance. Oh, and I paid per month for health and dental. If I had to go to the doc, it wasn't free. I paid out of pocket. Plus flight school loans. Many people have school loans. It's not even close to being in the military