Originally Posted by
Bergman
There’s a difference between a $100k office job with 3% annual raise potential while working 40-60 hours a week , versus an FO making $250k after 5 years, working 12 days a month, with a potential $100k/yr raise when they upgrade.
This EXACTLY. I am leaving my career where I work 11-15 days a month on a 24 hour shift where I will never make more than 150k a year to be an airline pilot making less for the first 5 years, but significantly more thereafter.