Originally Posted by
DeadHead
As bad as salaries have gotten over the years, I think we make more than taxi drivers and waiters. Well, at least most taxi drivers and waiters.
Plus those are not salaried positions, tips are a large percentage to certain hourly-compensated workers in most "service" jobs.
Thirdly, even if it was customary to tips flight crews I wouldn't start lighting cigars with $100 bills since most people on average don't tip well. I've waited for a few years and I'd say in average tips were 10%-12%, but then again I wasn't a very good waiter. Apparently bad people skills and being a pilot go hand in hand.
I hear that. I waited tables at three restaurants throughout my tenure in the food service industry.
Actually, what's sad is that with my new job I'm
finally making more as a pilot than I did as a server. At one restaurant in the LA area I was making $30k/year or so to work 25 hours per week. Sad.