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.
lol thx for the laugh. No ones “disconnected”. Everyone’s aware teachers make trash money.
I made 15k a year flying turbo props to $hit hole towns around New Mexico sleeping in literal sheds on overnights. To then get paid 18k a year flying crjs in the hopes of one day landing my dream job, years of abuse later it finally happened. A lot of us are well aware of how to stretch a budget.
The point was anyone who defends $hit pilot salaries especially at the level required to be at allegiant is… yes an idiot
You sound like you’re in flight school so I get that your clueless to the industry. Roger Cohen who was a total slime ball ( used to be the president of the RAA) almost verbatim said the exact same line in an interview on night line years ago in defense of terrible pilot wages at the time. “Family’s make it work all across America”therefore it’s totally acceptable?? GMAFB