LOL! Are you kidding Slice Baby? I let him off so easy. After 25 years together and putting him through medical school, I didn't even touch his medical practice, even though I am entitled to half of it. I would have put him in dire financial straits if I would have made him cough up half of his practice to me. Everyone thought I was nuts.

Aren't I a nice ex-wife?

 

And to think, some of the men here on APC probably think you're a b&*%^!!!!
If it makes you feel any better, I was the same way with the ex. Just happy to get rid of him!! LOL Although we are friends now...

 

Well they may think that because I'm a bit sassy on APC. Although you'd be surprised how many guys dig a woman who isn't a doormat, like the guy I went sailing with yesterday...

 

You must mean how many "MEN" dig a sassy "WOMAN"
I KNOW you know what I mean...

 

No, your lawyer probably advised you against it.

If you owned half of the practice, you'd also have half the liability. Including malpractice claims. Also, should the practice fail, you're out, and/or your ex becoming unemployed, he could have the decree changed, thereby excluding you from anything, including alimony.

I love how ex-wives claim they "put" their husband(s) through school.

 

Exhibit "A", Skygir!!! I rest my case!!!
Gee, that didn't take long, did it?

 

Bite me Tex, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Why am I not surprised that this came from a Texas man?

 

I'm afraid I only know one instance where a women paying her husbands way through college worked. He's an architect and I so far it's happily ever after. The others(2 lawyers & 1 doctor) dumped they're wives for hot young girls the first chance they got.

 

For those of you who want to debunk these numbers with anecdotal stories of, "I once knew a CFI who had to live off of dog food, therfor these numbers can't be right" etc: I would trust the BLS's methodology a little more than the anecdotal method.

In fact, if you look around on their website you can find a lot more about what they think and they seem pretty smart on the subject. The BLS mentions several times that there are wide disparities between what pilots are paid for smaller airplanes and what senior pilots are paid for larger airplanes. Their numbers also include flight engineers, who aren't notoriously well paid. They repeatedly say that senior pilots for large airlines are "among the highest paid workers in America."

Since 50% of values fall below and above the median, even if you were paid ZERO for flying, we know that the potential income of Captains for UPS/FedEx/most legacies and even SWA is well upwards of $300. So the max is value is somewhere between two and three times the median in this case.

Think of it this way: If you plot the values on a graph (income on the bottom or x axis and number of pilots paid that income on the left or y axis), the area contained underneath the plot must be equal both left and right of the median. The left edge of the graph can't go below zero but the right edge can go up to $400k or whatever the best paid pilot in the US made. The fact that the right edge of the plot can tail off into very high numbers (3x the median) guarantees that the mean would be higher than the median.

Consider that you could conceivably take the top 5 paid airline pilots, triple their pay and ONLY THE MEAN would increase, the median value would remain the same.

The bottom line is, I believe their median numbers are correct and I believe the mean would be greater than the median.

And no I didn't sleep in a holiday in express but I do have a degree in Accounting.

And some of you guys should drag out your community college stats textbooks before you start issuing guarantees or asking what world we're in.

 

I think Vagabond may be on to something with her Alaska pilots.
All the ones I meet are cool guys, at least the ones on here are.