Best Pay With The Most Time Off?
09-21-2011, 03:31 PM
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Best Pay With The Most Time Off?
1. Aircraft Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
> Hours worked/year: 1,090
> Median hourly earnings: $119.12
> No. employed: 68,580
> Hours worked/week: 21
> Median annual income: $103,210
> Top annual income: $139,330
According to the BLS, “FAA regulations limit flying time of airline pilots of large aircraft to a maximum of 100 hours a month and 1,000 hours a year. Most airline pilots fly an average of 75 hours a month and work an additional 140 hours a month, performing nonflying duties, which includes waiting for delays to clear and their aircraft to arrive.” According to the BLS’s national compensation survey, only two jobs have shorter annual hours worked — flight instructors and lifeguards. Pilots work almost 50% fewer hours than the average America, but make the 21st highest median annual salary among the 819 positions listed on the BLS list of occupations.
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Excelllent, where do I sign up. Sounds fantastic!
> Hours worked/year: 1,090
> Median hourly earnings: $119.12
> No. employed: 68,580
> Hours worked/week: 21
> Median annual income: $103,210
> Top annual income: $139,330
According to the BLS, “FAA regulations limit flying time of airline pilots of large aircraft to a maximum of 100 hours a month and 1,000 hours a year. Most airline pilots fly an average of 75 hours a month and work an additional 140 hours a month, performing nonflying duties, which includes waiting for delays to clear and their aircraft to arrive.” According to the BLS’s national compensation survey, only two jobs have shorter annual hours worked — flight instructors and lifeguards. Pilots work almost 50% fewer hours than the average America, but make the 21st highest median annual salary among the 819 positions listed on the BLS list of occupations.
Read more: The Highest Paying Jobs With The Most Time Off - 24/7 Wall St. The Highest Paying Jobs With The Most Time Off - 24/7 Wall St.
Excelllent, where do I sign up. Sounds fantastic!
09-21-2011, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by DashDriverYV
1. Aircraft Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
> Hours worked/year: 1,090
> Median hourly earnings: $119.12
> No. employed: 68,580
> Hours worked/week: 21
> Median annual income: $103,210
> Top annual income: $139,330
According to the BLS, “FAA regulations limit flying time of airline pilots of large aircraft to a maximum of 100 hours a month and 1,000 hours a year. Most airline pilots fly an average of 75 hours a month and work an additional 140 hours a month, performing nonflying duties, which includes waiting for delays to clear and their aircraft to arrive.” According to the BLS’s national compensation survey, only two jobs have shorter annual hours worked — flight instructors and lifeguards. Pilots work almost 50% fewer hours than the average America, but make the 21st highest median annual salary among the 819 positions listed on the BLS list of occupations.
Read more: The Highest Paying Jobs With The Most Time Off - 24/7 Wall St. The Highest Paying Jobs With The Most Time Off - 24/7 Wall St.
Excelllent, where do I sign up. Sounds fantastic!
> Hours worked/year: 1,090
> Median hourly earnings: $119.12
> No. employed: 68,580
> Hours worked/week: 21
> Median annual income: $103,210
> Top annual income: $139,330
According to the BLS, “FAA regulations limit flying time of airline pilots of large aircraft to a maximum of 100 hours a month and 1,000 hours a year. Most airline pilots fly an average of 75 hours a month and work an additional 140 hours a month, performing nonflying duties, which includes waiting for delays to clear and their aircraft to arrive.” According to the BLS’s national compensation survey, only two jobs have shorter annual hours worked — flight instructors and lifeguards. Pilots work almost 50% fewer hours than the average America, but make the 21st highest median annual salary among the 819 positions listed on the BLS list of occupations.
Read more: The Highest Paying Jobs With The Most Time Off - 24/7 Wall St. The Highest Paying Jobs With The Most Time Off - 24/7 Wall St.
Excelllent, where do I sign up. Sounds fantastic!
09-21-2011, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver
The public just doesn't have a clue how much we make and how much we work. Then you have "journalists" misreporting it. 75 hours plus "an additional 140 hours per month" adds up to 2,580 hours per year. If the median annual income is $103,210 as reported above, then the median hourly earnings are $40/hour, not $119.
The management/wallstreet propoganda machine is alive & well, & they are much more adept at publishing their agenda then we are.
09-21-2011, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer
This month, I did about 8 hours in 3 days, plus 7 in the office. Let's just say my annual income is well above the survey's top income.
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09-21-2011, 04:10 PM
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No true! 11 of those were scheduled days off, known in advance. Any unscheduled days end at 1700. In 7 years, called three times, for the next day. No commuting, no bidding, no BS. I also have 4 weeks vacay that I don't need to bid for and get in March or Sept. The airlines haven't been the best jobs in aviation for nearly 20 years
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09-21-2011, 05:51 PM
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My worst day at the airlines cannot compare to my best day flying corporate, maybe in the 15 plus years I did it I just had bad luck choosing jobs, I don't know. But I did it long enough to know that I don't ever want to deal with that b.s. again
09-21-2011, 06:29 PM
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I did 4+ at EAL, which cured me of any enthusiasm for airlines. Ours is good enough for 4 airline guys to resign rather than be recalled and to attract 3 airline check airmen to apply.
Yes, we have bad days and good, we don't have pop-up trips at all, the "last minute" call (day prior) have been to replace sick guys. I don't deal with airport security (I'd last about two days with it), a 20 minute drive to work. We have 3 crews per plane.
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Yes, we have bad days and good, we don't have pop-up trips at all, the "last minute" call (day prior) have been to replace sick guys. I don't deal with airport security (I'd last about two days with it), a 20 minute drive to work. We have 3 crews per plane.
GF
09-21-2011, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by DashDriverYV
only two jobs have shorter annual hours worked — flight instructors and lifeguards.
09-21-2011, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer
I did 4+ at EAL, which cured me of any enthusiasm for airlines. Ours is good enough for 4 airline guys to resign rather than be recalled and to attract 3 airline check airmen to apply.
Yes, we have bad days and good, we don't have pop-up trips at all, the "last minute" call (day prior) have been to replace sick guys. I don't deal with airport security (I'd last about two days with it), a 20 minute drive to work. We have 3 crews per plane.
GF
Yes, we have bad days and good, we don't have pop-up trips at all, the "last minute" call (day prior) have been to replace sick guys. I don't deal with airport security (I'd last about two days with it), a 20 minute drive to work. We have 3 crews per plane.
GF
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