Greetings,

I've searched for many years for a historical pilot pay survey and haven't found one. I've found anecdotes here and there around the net but nothing substantial. Since there doesn't appear to be such a survey available, I'd like to put one together myself. The finished product would show pilot pay progression in various industry segments compared to other hopefully meaningful metrics (eg. CPI, price of gold, average pay in other industries, etc.).

I'm looking for old pilot contracts to provide data for said survey. I've got everything from my employer which goes back to the 60s. That is probably sufficient coverage of the non-sched niche (not sure who else had union contracts going back that far). Ideally, I'd like to get a series of contracts for one or two of the legacy majors, one or two of the regionals, and maybe Southwest? The further back they go the better. If I could get contracts back to the 70's, that'd be ideal. My sense of things is that it would not be particularly useful to survey further back than the 1970s, although I admit I'd be curious to read much older contracts.

This is both for a school project, and for public consumption. I'm sure many of you can imagine several uses for such information.

If you have any leads, feel free to reply here or message me directly. You can also email me directly at varrin at sugargroup dot net.

Thanks in advance...

V-