Just compensation is an important part of career evaluation. It costs a small fortune to get educated and trained as a pilot. They should earn far more than they do.

Perhaps it is people who enter the profession from the perspective that it is sacrilegious for pilots to ask that their careers be able to pay for themselves that are the problem?

In 1978 a USair 737 captain earned the equivalent of 420K in todays dollars. (They also had a great benefits package) In ten years they will be lucky to be able to break 100K. Aviation is becoming dominated by those who are happy living alone in a studio apartment on mac and cheese. And that is where the real problem lies.

Pilots use to get into the profession for the money. Not anymore.

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