Originally Posted by justageek
According to
Airline Pilot Central , an AA 777 captain makes $152,832 per year for working just 64 hours per
month. Arpey will be making 4.25 times as much per year, while working at least 3x as many hours, for operating a machine (AMR) that doesn't have an "autopilot" mode.
Put another way, Arpey and a triple 7 pilot are making about the same hourly wage.
I would
love to hear of any other industry where the CEO makes the same hourly wage as
any category of front-line worker. (Excluding the CEOs who are so wealthy that they take $1/year in salary just to make a statement.)
64 hrs a month is guarantee not necessarily what they actually work, it could be more.
AMR sure does have an "autopilot" mode, it's called the frontline employees doing the work everyday turning around the company to generate profits such as the recent 291 million.
Thats sad, a WN senior captain tops out higher than an AA 777 caotain