Originally Posted by FangsF15

My response was completely irrespective of pilot anything.

If you are a top 2% earner, in one of, if not the richest countries in the world, complaining that you don’t “make a lot of money”, I submit you need some perspective.

That’s not to say we pilots don’t warrant a raise, nor that historically there have been really some hard times. But in the end, I think you’ve lost touch if you don’t think $240,000 annually “isn’t a lot of money”.

I think you also missed the context around his claims around how long it took him to captain, juxtaposed with his statement about what does not constitute “a lot of money”.

Originally Posted by CX500T

This has been interesting. Conversations between me and my wife have gone along the lines of:

Her: If you told me back in college (90s) we'd be making what we make ($360-370 this year. 80% ER Captain, live in base, did $467k last year being a GS Ninja) I'd wonder how many motocross tracks we own and how big the mansion is.

Me:
If you told me we'd pay over $1M for a house I'd ask how many motocross tracks are on the property and do I have an indoor arenacross track, and how baller is the pool?

In reality, while we make good money, my dad was able to swing a similar house, on a lot more land the same distance from BOS as I am from LGA as a truck driver.

We (legacy pilots) have good paying jobs. But housing has vastly outpaced wage inflation. That's my single biggest bill.

1979 dad buys a large Victorian in good shape, albeit last updated in the 30s, for $69k. On 40 acres. With a carraige house and barn.

Based off CPI inflation that would be $298k today.

You aren't buying that house for under $1.4M if it still had the acreage. Owners after my parents sold off all but 2 acres. It just sold last year for $988k.