Originally Posted by
FlyF35
To me, paying FO on avergae of 45k a year is not an acceptable practice. FO is SIC and in charge of lives of up to 75 peoples on board together with PIC. Our kids school teacher earn more than that (teachers shall get paid more too).
Given Boeing can cut corners like in 738 Max case, shouldnt we keep pay scale better in this reality?
Of course, all of these are from passenger perspective.
Wow times have changed. Not much more than a decade ago 45k for an FO would have been virtually unheard of. I never made more than 32k as an RJ FO, and as a BE-1900 captain for CommutAir, I topped out at 30k. In 2005 my drug addicted, convicted felon, high school dropout former brother-in-law made more money delivering pizza for Dominos than I did as a CommutAir captain.