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.)
It's preposterous to say that Arpey is making the same wage as a pilot on an hourly basis, or that it's even close.
I *totally* agree that in the category of CEO's for a company of this size his salary is very, very reasonable. But $250 an hour? Not likely... for an alternate perspective:
http://www.apapdp.org/cms/index.php?...=427&Itemid=73