You forgot a base, a rainy one out west. Seriously though, I think doing it by state is a poor way to do it as some of these states are huge and the variance is quite high. You could live in California and still be 700 miles from your base at LAX for instance.

A better stat sheet would be the median value in the metro areas of ATL, NYC, DTW, MSP, SLC, LAX, and SEA. A quick google shows SEA with a median price of over 850K and that sure as heck isn’t getting you a mansion. I’d hate to see what LAX is.

Sure you can commute but that’s a separate issue.

 

Forgot: MA: $528,333

 

LA city is about $950k median. metro area is about $850k.

 

That California figure is way off! The median home price in CA is most certainly not 673k.

 

240k in California is definitely not a lot of money.



Yup. All of this. Finally bought my CA home for 1.425m last year and it's 3,1xx sq ft and on a 5,500 sq ft lot. When we moved to CA (for the second time) in 2019, I told my wife "no way am I taking a mortgage for a 7 figure home." How times changed in/after the pandemic! I still felt a little uneasy when I bought my home, and I still remember my agent saying don't worry, as long as you don't sell quickly, your home one day will be worth over 2m.


I'm coming up on one year and had a realtor call me saying if I was interested, he could sell my house for 1.650m and do it for a 2% agent fee. No thanks. Our future generations are screwed. Our kids generation will be relying on whatever we can pass onto them (housing, inheritance, $$$). People are not going to be able to afford SFHs based on incomes that are not keeping up.

 

and a 7% interest rate right now. Yeah, it’s unaffordable and then some if you’re just buying your first house

 

Yup, I locked in 6.625% last year November.

And that creates another catch 22. Who's looking to ditch their 2-3% mortgages to sign up for 6-8% to buy a new home?



And all of this. I own a SFH now but previous ownership was a townhome. I don't know what was worse, the noisy neighbors upstairs or the HOA that would keep making up random stupid rules and enforce some really werid stuff. I had enough of living in apartments and townhomes, which I did pretty much all in my 20s and 30s. I'm 40 now and finally bought a SFH. As a SFH, I have no HOA (a hard requirement for me when looking to buy a home). I don't need some Karen-led organziation to tell me what I can or cannot do on my property.

 

NY metro is $833k median.

 

Very true. The median in San Jose for example is $1.4 million.

 

Vacation pay, training pay, international pay, reroute pay, profit sharing, paid trip drops, 415C overage pay and GS's. I broke 600k easily on a 334 dollar an hour rate. I was not close the to the highest paid pilot in my category. The guy who was probably at the top was about 50% in category. Keep in mind that when most pilots quote their pay rate they use their W2. They omit things like their 401K contributions.
That 438 dollar an hour rate becomes 525 an hour after you hit the 415C limit on international pay. Many hit that at the end of the first quarter. A 4 day GS with 25 hours pay is worth 26,000.00 dollars. 1 of those a quarter boosts your pay 100,000 a year! Also keep in mind it boosts your disability over 4000 a month if you do that. Thats the best disability insurance you can get and you only need to fly those 4 extra trips 1 out of every 3 years.
Look at a low work tolerance 330CA. Flies a basic schedule of 960 hour a hear. First 6 months gets 214,000K and hits 415C limit. Second 6 months makes 250K. He is at 474,000. He only gets say 2 reroutes as they happen less on international. Say 40 hours pay. He gets two 3 day trips dropped and WS over it. Picks up another 40 hours. Gets 15 hours training pay and flies a bit extra in his 5 vacation months. Let's say 5 extra those months for 25 total. Could ba a lot more! That's another 55,000 or so a year in pay. He's at 524,000. 8% profit sharing puts another 41k in the mix. 565 K now and he flies 1 good GS that year. Boom! 600,000.00