Originally Posted by
Der Meister
it's the same reason that software engineers get paid so much. They are rare to find and it takes lots of work to become one. So the scarcity of supply of qualified individuals that drives the leverage/pay. It's not the type of profession.
If scarcity of pilots made them valuable, why do RJ pilots make so little? We aren’t scarce, our skills aren’t constantly growing in a way that produces revenue, and we are interchangeable.