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I have come to realise that if someone has the focus and intelligence to make it through college, flight training and into the regionals then they probably could do much more with their lives than 18K and a shaky future.

SkyHigh

Surfnfly banned for violation of the forum TOS.

I encourage users to disagree all they want, just keep the dialog civil. Personal attacks and grade school name-calling has no place here.

I have liked his posts in the past, but he was way out of line here tonight.

LOL! 440K?? Are you kidding me? That's cheap! (not that I can afford even 100K). Try Irvine, Ca where the median cost is around 600-700K. If you average newport coast and UCI area, its probably a million. Enjoy the 440K while it lasts.

Since I've never made 150k a year in my life and live in the 5th largest city in the US and support a family of 6 (7 including the grand-daughter who's currently living with us), I think that, ONCE AGAIN, Skyhigh has fudged the numbers. I dont' need to publish the whole budget but...

I live in a 3900 sq ft house.
Put one son through flying school
Pay for the other son's VERY expensive Travel Sport Team
We have three cars in the garage, two of them bought new (Lexus and Chrysler)
My wife doesn't work
Not bragging, just trying to establish the fact that we're not scraping by. Not rich, but better off than a lot of people I know.

I wonder how I do it on the "pittance" that I make? The bottom line is you can get by on WAY less than 150k.

Skyhigh...please get your math right. I've called you on this before and you still make these numbers up.

Sky, you make some points, but its starting to get really really old................We get it you are bitter because of how this industry treated you, but leave the rest of us alone:D

PS. You want to talk about home prices, try where I live in Central Jersey good luck finding a house for 440k, my girlfriend just bought a single bedroom apartment in Hoboken for close to that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You people need to move to Charlotte...Good housing out there in area 5...

-LAFF

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My point is that it costs a lot of money to reach middle class these days. One needs to take a holistic approach to studying pilot compensation. Employer paid retirements are gone. Wages are down while work rules are worse. If someone really is bent upon throwing their lives away then my hat is off to them. However if you harbor dreams of a wife, home, kids and white picket fence then perhaps you had better look elsewhere than an aviation career.

We can not look to the prior generation as an example of the future. Those days are gone forever. One needs to peer ahead 30 years with expectations of furloughs, moves, layoffs and further pay cuts. Pilots love to pull the wool over their own eyes and intentionally fail to recognise the truths that are blatant. As previously mentioned the median home price in Seattle is 440K. Regular people with common jobs are able to pay those prices. 52K and the left seat at a regional will not cut it.

SkyHigh

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And this information is supposed to help you how exactly? Pilots in SEA can not afford those prices. I don't think they are paying regional pilots any more in Irvine.

I have a friend who lives in Irvine and pays 1450 per month for a two bedroom apartment.


SkyHigh