Originally Posted by MLCCPilot

I get that professional pilots are a bit disconnected to what the rest of us make. But I am leaving a career in teaching to become a pilot, last year my contract was for $53k. I drove Uber weekends and during the summer so my 1040 says I made $63k last year. If you take out my mandatory retirement and health care I walked home with less than $1000 a week. Living off 50k a year, hell even raising a family on 50k a year isn't only doable a lot of Americans are doing it.