A tough job for little pay.

Airline Pilots Get Paid Crap (Click on this link to read more)

Republic Airways announced this week that it's grounding 27 of its planes due to a "shortage of qualified pilots." Possibly related: many airline pilots get paid jack shit.
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This certainly won't come as news to airline pilots. But for the general flying public-still nodding to those sharply-dressed pilots in the airport with their hats and their shiny wing pins, thoughtlessly assuming that such professional-looking types must be comfortably upper middle class, at least-it may be enlightening to read today's Wall Street Journal story on the pay grades of pilots, particularly at the lower end of the spectrum:
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    Starting pilot salaries at 14 U.S. regional carriers average $22,400 a year, according to the largest U.S. pilots union. Some smaller carriers pay as little as $15,000 a year. The latter is about what a full-time worker would earn annually at the $7.25-an-hour federal minimum wage.