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Originally Posted by clayfenderstrat  I have looked around the forum, and everyone will tell you something different. Can you guys give me a ballpark of how much I will be making as a careers pilot? I am 17 and a am about halfway through my PPL, and hope to go to Purdue to get a 4 year degree in flying. I am really passionate about flying, but would like to know how much I will make from my first year as a pilot until I retire (like what kind of a ladder am I looking at, and how much could I expect to make).
Thanks for all of your help.
Clay |
First of all Purdue is a great program. I would highly recommend them as long as you can get into that program. As well be sure to double major. As far as what others have said its very difficult to give you a real figure as to what you will make. Fact of the matter is go to Airlinepilotcentral.com and take the hourly wages multiply it by 1000 (max hours you can fly a year) and that will ROUGHLY give you a figure. However many MANY factors that contribute to all of this of course.
I would highly recommend just doing some research. As clocks gave you a rough estimate to figure out what you would make. However it depends if you do 135 stuff, 121, stick it out and instruct etc. Many ways to look at it. Also depends where the industry is in 5 years when you are done with Purdue and what yours hours are upon completoin of the program. YOu could be looking at the airlines in 4-5 years or 5-6. ALOT can and indeed will change.
However again if you have a passion for flying its probably not a fluke. Many of us would say we got bit by a bug and thus pursued our careers and goals. However realize like any industry you start at the bottom and thus the bottom pay. Sometimes it does not seem fair when you graduate after 4 years and only make 20k your 1st year, followed by 24-29k your 2nd, 30k your 3rd etc.....