Originally Posted by OnTilt

Pilots are union labor with no ability to individually negotiate their compensation package. Also we are generally a very standardized product, and we have to go sell ourselves to legacies to “move up.” Aside from in the corporate aviation side, there’s no headhunting in aviation, and definitely not in 121. i contend the pilot to doctor/lawyer equivalencies are false and silly. With the only possible exception being corporate/ private flying