Airline Pilot Central

How does your rate of pay compare to pilots at other airlines flying the same equipment?  

There are many variables that affect total compensation for airline pilots. Factors such as retirement contributions, health care benefits, and profit sharing are just a few components, in addition to hourly pay, of a "total" compensation package. Hourly rates of pay multiplied by hours flown, or "credit" time, has the strongest influence on a pilot's annual W2 earnings. Therefore, Airline Pilot Central's Pay Comparison Charts focus only on this industry standard of hourly rate multiplied by credit time.

Because of individual pilot preference in schedules, airline equipment utilization, crew staffing, route marketing, and other variables it would be very difficult to provide a meaningful “average line value” for any airline. So, for comparison purposes we offer contractual monthly hourly guarantees and the ability to dynamically adjust credit time for an "apples to apples" comparison. Use the slider inputs to change values and draw your own conclusions, but remember these charts only provide one aspect of pilot compensation.

To view the pay comparisons, you will need the free Macromedia Flash player installed on your computer.  Each chart is about 250kb, so it may take a few moments to load in your browser.


Need help using the comparison charts? Check out the Pay Chart Tutorial

*Stop the presses - we just noticed that the American Airlines and United Airlines rates do not reflect the most recent pay increases.  We are aware of this and will update these charts on the next revision (that rates on the individual airline profile pages are correct).