Originally Posted by
ryane946
Number one, 150k is way too high. If you spend that much, you are either 1) your parents have too much money to burn, or 2) you went to some incredibly expensive college and FBO. I would say 100k tops, and at least 2/3 of that should be college expenses, not flight training.
That lowers it to about $1,000,000. Now we have to remember that inflation grows at a rate of about 3%+ a year, so that cuts it almost in half again to around $500,000. Divide that over your 40 year career, and you could make $12,500 a year......
Or you can go to college and make a lot more.
I will let you decide on that one.
The end results are that as a pilot you start out 150K in the hole and then launch into a career that pays less than a mailman. Their is little hope of being able to dig yourself out unless you start out earning a very good paycheck.
You are right in 30 years 1 million may not mean all that much, but it is more than you will have than if you had spent a career as a pilot.
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