The amount of money an airline pilot earns for the crucial task of maneuvering a massive metal bee full of passengers through the air without crashing it has been made public.
To be honest, there are some occupations in our world where you would hope the employee was getting compensated well for their time and work.
One of them is a pilot; many lives depend on them performing their duties properly every day; therefore, you would think that those employed for such a position would be handsomely compensated.
You might want to become a pilot after watching Garrett, a YouTube airline pilot, explain how much he was paid for flying and what kinds of employment were most profitable for him.
Although it seems fantastic that Garrett was paid $213.87 (£175.57) per hour for his work, he broke down what it meant in terms of how long each of these trips actually took him.
He described the period of time between flights as “time away from base.” Pilots cannot just get out of bed, get into the cockpit, and then fly from one flight to another on the way back.
He calculated the expenses of a specific route he enjoyed taking, deadheading—a flight in which a pilot takes a passenger to their destination—from LaGuardia Airport in New York to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Texas and back. He got paid a total of $1,556 (£1,227) for such work.
According to the pilot, he likes this route since it allows him to work on other projects while deadheading and because he wasn’t stranded for too long before being able to return by plane.
It had a tight turnaround time where he could be there and back in a day, even though he was on the plane for just over seven hours and his total “time away from base” was just over nine hours.
In contrast, the pilot calculated that he might have a 24-hour layover on a different aircraft from JFK Airport in New York to Phoenix, Arizona. This implies that he may spend roughly ten hours in the air, but he may actually be spending more than forty hours “away from base,” making it “not the best bang for the buck.”
The pilot claimed that if he became a captain or took specific routes at specific times, he might be earning a lot more money. He described how he earned $5,500 (£4,515) from a longer flight between Phoenix and JFK in another video, where he also received additional benefits like holiday pay.
