Originally Posted by
athenssoest
To current regional pilots-
Are Regional pilot salaries really that bad? I was wondering because I noticed on a Recent trip to the Atlanta airport, that pretty much half of all the planes were CRJs and other Regional jets. All of those pilots must make it work some how. How do they do it?
What do you mean by that bad? What is your standard? If you live in rural Misssisispi then it's not bad. The majority of RJ FOs pilots that you see, black berry sporting or not, make around 30-35k. The CAs make about 50-60K. The FOs are all in poverty, they scrape by living in parents basement, sharing a room, etc. Some have saved enough so that they can actually have some kind of a life. The CAs do OK though 60,000 is barely enough for a family unless you live a simple life. etc. The point of it all is the compensation vs the job. For the ammount of sacrifice we all put into the job like being gone about 60-80% of the year though non consecutively still adds up. When you add all the hard things associated with the job it's definitely not worth what we're being paid and it certainly not worth the view at 40K that is why so many are leaving the airlines.