Oh mannn, making $7.25/hr in 70's should be like making $50/hr now. I can not believe how high the wages were back then. You not joking right?
wow, unfuckingbelievable!!!!!! I just crunched some numbers and that $7.25 an hour loading trucks back in the 70's is equal to approximately $25-$28 dollars an hour today. Just to let you know loading a truck today probably pays anywhere $7.50-$12 at most and of course its a non union job with no kind of pension what so ever. If someone was going to pay me nearly $30 an hour to unload a truck I would surely take it as a second job, $50k+ to unload a truck.
Cessena 152 is not $250/hour, do not even think that it is $100/hour. But most of the students build hours by being a flight instructor. Many folks get their commercial pilot's license somehow but airlines, even the regional ones are looking for nearly 400-500 multiengine hours and that is where the meter jumps to $250-400 per hour rental of a multiengine aircraft.
Maybe I was thinking of a Cessna 172. I was also figuring fuel cost as well. Maybe I was high. It's been a long time. The bottom line is, it costs a fortune. And that cost has to be figured into the equivalent salary. So even if it's $100 an hour. That essentially means they are earning over $100 an hour for getting paid for those hours. Not that bad.
oversupply of pilots undersupply of jobs downward wage pressure simple besides, the ones making nothing fly regional jets. usually under 50 people.
How many flight hours is needed for a pilot to fly a non-passanger plan? How about working for Fedex to build up flight hours?
Thats also more than 99.9% of all pilots. The only pilots making that now are the ones at the big airlines like United. Takes at least 10 years working for nothing to get to that kind of pay. Last time i checked even the first officers at the big airlines were only pulling in 25k per year or so.
$150k is more than 90% of all pilots in North America. It seems with today's technology the human in cockpit is only a security measure. Just insert a flight destination CD and autopilot will take you strong and smooth. One pilot told me that planes like 777 will fly from gate to gate and pilot might as well read the WSJ and watch movies all along. No wonder they call it the best job in the world.