I am wondering if anybody knows who the highest paid Captains are and who are the worst paid, maybe Skycruiser can help here.
I would expect the worst paid to be maybe among some of the Russian Airlines.
Also does anybody know of a website about pilots pay scales
By: skycruiser - 11th July 2003 at 17:04
Well,
some of our ‘A’ scale Captains here at Cathay earn a hell of a lot of money. I don’t want to publish the amount (way over a six figure),but take my word for it, it’s a lot.
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By: wysiwyg - 11th July 2003 at 12:16
Although it varies from company to company, typical UK ballpark figures are –
Turboprop/regional jet FO – £20-25,000pa
Turboprop/regional jet Capt – £30-40,000pa
Boeing/Airbus FO – £35-45,000pa
Boeing/Airbus Capt – £55-70,000pa
By: Whiskey Delta - 11th July 2003 at 05:28
The highest paid in the US is a 777 captain at Delta at roughly $319 US per hour for a 12 year captain in 2004. Now it’s tough to say what someone’s salary is at a particular pay rate as there are many other factors that determine how much someone’s annual salary will be. A rule of thumb is you take the hourly pay rate and multiply it by 1000. That puts the Delta 777 captain at about $319,000 a year.
At the other end of the pay scale a EMB-145 or CRJ First Officer can be found making $18,000 US a year. Quite a difference. The small jet operators can have their captains making $45,000 a year or less.
Before airline deregulation here in the US back in the 1970’s an airline captain could afford to buy a new Cadillac every month. That would be similar to a captain making $40,000 a month or nearly $500,000 a year today. That doesn’t happen at all.
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July 11, 2003 at 4:20 am