Originally Posted by CL65driver

My parent's garbage man makes $65k a year, and can have all the over time he wants. He clocks in at 4am, clocks out at 3pm, and gets paid for 11 hours. When I told him about how we, as airline pilots get paid he almost spewed Guinness from his nostrils. Show to work at 6:15am after reduced rest, do a walk around in freezing weather, fly two 2:30 legs with a 5:45 sit in between, get released at 4:00pm with 10:45 duty day and only 5:00 hrs of pay. Effectively, I just wh0red myself out to XJT for $15.00/duty hr.

Sorry.... make that $10.00.... since the crooks in DC took their cut, and ALPA snagged it's 2%