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Originally Posted by MFT1Air  Succinctly put, I believe you're deluding yourself if you believe $65k is chump change. Demand all you want; you've not provided any evidence to support you're entitled to be paid more. Further, rather than simply spout emotional rhetoric, do the financial math that says increasing your pay won't put the airline out of business. I'll listen then. . . |
I think where you grow up/have lived puts a different perspective on what amount of money is a lot or a little. For someone like me who grew up in NYC and have lived in equally expensive CO and Japan, 65K truly is chump change.
What other evidence do we need about being entitled to be paid more other than we (and I use we as in general airline pilot) used to make several times what we make now? We took pay hits to allow our companies to survive the aftermath of 9/11. Now that that is behind it and our comapnies are making money again, the CEOs and other management types come and go and give themselves tons of money yet our wages have merely trickled up only slightly from what they were reduced to. So are we no longer entitled because we tried to help???
You can rearrange the financial math anyway you want and get an answer to support your way of thinking just like any other statistic. Cut some of the huge management bonuses you can give the employees a pay raise. Elmiminate those golden parachutes and you can give employees a pay raise. Stop the cutting fare and cutting back services war and you cna give the employees a pay raise. Stop flying unprofitable routes or aircraft and you can give employees a pay raise. Stop offering 8 flights a day to a city that provides only 10 or so people at a time and you can give employees a pay raise. Do I need to go on? People arguing against pilots making money is just sickening. Particularly on a pro-aviation website.