Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Nice round number, and entirely plausible, but the inflation adjusted buying power will decline proportionally.
Wait long enough and everybody gets to be a millionaire. Lot more common now than when I was a kid.
Maybe, maybe not. Regional salaries are only growing at ~1%/year, over 25 years they will lag mainline pay by a factor of at least 2. So it's conceivable that mainline pilots will make more than 20 times what a regional pilot makes.