End of 2024 Salary Survey
12-23-2024 | 04:20 PM
#301
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2016
Posts: 887
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I'll try to answer all my fellow pilots in one message.
I am not sure, I may just retire from Qatar in another 17 years or I may come back to the states to mentor kids who dream of flying and sponser some financially. Required base is Doha, which is the safest place to live in the world. I am also pretty ok with investing in stocks and may open an investment firm catering to pilots. I am actually pretty good at it. Many things I'd like to do or do nothing at all n just retire. One thing I'd like to tell my fellow aviators is that you are worth every cent. Whatever the case, fight for neurosurgeon salaries when you negotiate, not a penny less. After all. you are responsible for dozens of lives at a time. Of course most of us just love the flying but make sure you get compensated well for it.
I am not sure, I may just retire from Qatar in another 17 years or I may come back to the states to mentor kids who dream of flying and sponser some financially. Required base is Doha, which is the safest place to live in the world. I am also pretty ok with investing in stocks and may open an investment firm catering to pilots. I am actually pretty good at it. Many things I'd like to do or do nothing at all n just retire. One thing I'd like to tell my fellow aviators is that you are worth every cent. Whatever the case, fight for neurosurgeon salaries when you negotiate, not a penny less. After all. you are responsible for dozens of lives at a time. Of course most of us just love the flying but make sure you get compensated well for it.
12-24-2024 | 03:30 AM
#304
Line Holder
Joined: Jan 2024
Posts: 95
Likes: 0
12-24-2024 | 07:04 AM
#306
Respek
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,915
Likes: 61
12-24-2024 | 07:25 AM
#307
On Reserve
Joined: Jan 2023
Posts: 16
Likes: 12
US Navy F18 pilot on shore tour
Year 8/9
Days way from home: 3 months total on detachments
$89K base pay
$20K housing allowance
$3.7K food allowance
$7.8K flight pay
$4.5K Uncle Sam match
Total comp: ~$125k
Trying to get out as soon as possible but the Navy keeps breaking their promise. Was 2 years but now 3 years before i can get out due to "policy" changes to the "wings plus 8 years". Grass looks greener everywhere else.
Year 8/9
Days way from home: 3 months total on detachments
$89K base pay
$20K housing allowance
$3.7K food allowance
$7.8K flight pay
$4.5K Uncle Sam match
Total comp: ~$125k
Trying to get out as soon as possible but the Navy keeps breaking their promise. Was 2 years but now 3 years before i can get out due to "policy" changes to the "wings plus 8 years". Grass looks greener everywhere else.
12-24-2024 | 07:45 AM
#308
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 44,868
Likes: 664
From: Engines Turn or People Swim
US Navy F18 pilot on shore tour
Year 8/9
Days way from home: 3 months total on detachments
$89K base pay
$20K housing allowance
$3.7K food allowance
$7.8K flight pay
$4.5K Uncle Sam match
Total comp: ~$125k
Trying to get out as soon as possible but the Navy keeps breaking their promise. Was 2 years but now 3 years before i can get out due to "policy" changes to the "wings plus 8 years". Grass looks greener everywhere else.
Year 8/9
Days way from home: 3 months total on detachments
$89K base pay
$20K housing allowance
$3.7K food allowance
$7.8K flight pay
$4.5K Uncle Sam match
Total comp: ~$125k
Trying to get out as soon as possible but the Navy keeps breaking their promise. Was 2 years but now 3 years before i can get out due to "policy" changes to the "wings plus 8 years". Grass looks greener everywhere else.
When you do move on make sure you finish out in the reserves, otherwise that's a lot of points going to waste.
12-24-2024 | 07:46 AM
#309
Line Holder
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 1,568
Likes: 128
From: Left
US Navy F18 pilot on shore tour
Year 8/9
Days way from home: 3 months total on detachments
$89K base pay
$20K housing allowance
$3.7K food allowance
$7.8K flight pay
$4.5K Uncle Sam match
Total comp: ~$125k
Trying to get out as soon as possible but the Navy keeps breaking their promise. Was 2 years but now 3 years before i can get out due to "policy" changes to the "wings plus 8 years". Grass looks greener everywhere else.
Year 8/9
Days way from home: 3 months total on detachments
$89K base pay
$20K housing allowance
$3.7K food allowance
$7.8K flight pay
$4.5K Uncle Sam match
Total comp: ~$125k
Trying to get out as soon as possible but the Navy keeps breaking their promise. Was 2 years but now 3 years before i can get out due to "policy" changes to the "wings plus 8 years". Grass looks greener everywhere else.
Thank you for your service and I hope you have a great holiday
Again. THANK YOU
12-24-2024 | 09:01 AM
#310
On Reserve
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 14
Likes: 0
I actually found these posts helpful when I was making the decision to leave Air Force and make the jump so I guess I’ll contribute now:
AA NB FO - live in domicile. Lineholder for the last 5 months
6 months yr 1/ 6 months yr 2
- worked 126 days
- blocked 673 hrs
- credited 840 hrs
$130.5k of flight pay / $19.4k DC 401k
ANG military duty - $37k
$187k - easiest year of work in my life.
AA NB FO - live in domicile. Lineholder for the last 5 months
6 months yr 1/ 6 months yr 2
- worked 126 days
- blocked 673 hrs
- credited 840 hrs
$130.5k of flight pay / $19.4k DC 401k
ANG military duty - $37k
$187k - easiest year of work in my life.
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