Pilot Pay

[azdozer]

I think some pay things here need review, especially for those of us who don't really care for flying huge airliners. It's pretty expensive and unrealistic running a small airline on here it seems like, my small plane pilots are making $4,740/mo! That's a lot for flying EMB-120's and B1900's around. Here is a screenshot from SkyWest, you don't see $37.15 a flight hour until your 3rd year. Even then, at 75 flight hours a month that's $2,786 monthly. That's the main thing that's killing he here, or the fact that I need 5 people employed in the "route strategies department" at $4,300/mo and all the other positions that are unnecessary. 8 Ground handling crew at $2,700/mo? That's some union, they make $8.00/hr contracted out though Swissport. Southwest starts their ramp agents out at $10 and some change an hour and even then it's not $2,700/mo. 10 customer service at $3,380/mo? That's $10-12/hr at best, I'm sure you get the point by now. I enjoy the game, and I'll keep playing it. There's just some things that I think should be changed around. Mind you, this is all for an airline running two EMB-120's....58 employees.

http://www.skywest.com/skywest-airline-jobs/career-guides/flight-jobs/#/payscale

[Infinity]

You do realize that the staff page shows total salary EXPENSES, which includes employee on-costs such as taxes, social security and the likes?

[Sami]

Old response: https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,18246.msg89342.html#msg89342   (but to be noted, that's an old thread and a lot has changed in the economics of running small airlines since then, but the response about wages is still the same)

In summary, you cannot just compare a first officer starting hourly salary of some single regional carrier and make it as a global example. It's just totally wrong.