Pilots/Copilots have best new hire pay
 

According to this yahoo article, we are number 6 on the list. Can someone please tell me what Charles Purdy is smoking between the debate in congress and him writing this article?

Which Jobs Pay New Hires Best?- Yahoo! HotJobs

"6. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
Beginning Wage: $55,330
Median Earnings: $111,680"

I read that earlier when it popped up....then proceeded to write a very long response to yahoo about how inaccurate it was...
what a load of bs

Charles Purdy is a dumbass...where the hell has he been

$20/hr*40 HR/wk*52 wks=~$50,000?

Maybe he just took the starting hourly wage and just assumed we work a regular 40 HR week.

Or he realizes that regional pilots are not real pilots and just used major airline data.

"...according to the new, second edition of Laurence Shatkin's "250 Best-Paying Jobs" (Jist Publishing)."


"(Shatkin's salary figures are based on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Survey released in May 2008.)"


2 quotes from the article. I don't know who this Charles Purdy is, but he's just quoting from an article/booklet from Lawrence Shatkin, who in turn got his data from the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics (2008), and this government office compilies AVERAGE and MEDIAN yearly salaries form ALL occupations (I know this as fact). How they do this is simple, they take the salaries for everyone at their first year of any position (i.e. first year reg f/o, first year reg capt, first year major f/o, first year major capt, etc) in the flying/aviation industry and average it.


"The following list features ten occupations from Shatkin's list of jobs in which even beginners are paid well."

Another quote from the article. Notice the word EVEN, it is based on the fact that beginning wage's average is based on all those others "first year" positions driving it upwards.

Well I'm starting a job at a very small 121 airline in the next few days at more than that, so it can't be completely wrong.

Heck, I made no where near that my first year at Delta.

Yet more excellent research about our field. Probably why 'journalists' and 'writers' are not on that list. With all due to respect to those who DO get their facts straight before spewing garbage like this.

Do you honestly expect these journalists to know that there are other airlines besides United, American Southwest and Jetblue? Even the people that work at the airport don't even know all the airlines.

I do expect writers to know something about a subject before presume to push it on the public.