Guys like you always amaze me. Constantly trying in vein to justify a falsely inflated income. I went back and discovered that I was off by one line. My pay would have been $64 per hour at 80 hours per month totals to $62,000 per year. After four years of college. One year of self funded flight training. three years as a CFI, five years in various charter jobs and then 8 years at Horizon Air. 21 years total as a professional pilot I would have accomplished $62,000 per year. What an embarrassment. Strait pay is the only way to fairly evaluate your compensation. Selling your days off and adding per diem doesnt count. Why not give them a kidney while you are at it, or perhaps you could sell your blood? Add it all in.

Consider if you will, had even yourself simply gotten a job at Costco. And had applied the same efforts and sacrifices as with a flying career you would most likely be in store management by now. 62K is a sad and tragic. New college grads are starting out at near that amount. Keep selling yourself on that fairytale though. Perhaps you should have taken a few accounting classes in college.

SkyHigh