I know guys making close to a million dollars a year as a captain working the system.

So how much could you make flying right seat or Delta or one of these majors?

600 to 700,000?

As a co-pilot?

Damn, a million a year.

So out of all the airlines, which airlines pay the best if you're a pilot?

Delta's kind of been the number one.

They have high pay scale and they also have high

profit sharing. I know a bunch of 25 year olds that are making so much money right now. Starting

pays like 130,000, just your base. They're just timed it right. So there's so many retirements.

I think every major airline, Delta, United American, they're retiring a thousand pilots a year.

I mean, Americans have been hiring somewhere around 2,000 pilots for the last three and a half, four years that I know of. And how many days off are you holding a month, making a million a year? I know my dad wasn't doing quite a million. He was crushing it playing the game. And he had a couple months that were like triple a normal salary pay. And he said, I still got half the month off. It's because he was so fine-tuned into the system of trips, kind of always watching it. And oh, this one's going to double pay. If you could get paid the same to go fly for 30 minutes or 10 hours, which one would you want? He'd be like, oh, if I fly to Phoenix, I would stay the night, but then I could wave it and come back to San Diego and get four days of pay for one 30-minute flight or an hour of flight. How long would it take them to become a pilot and get hired for a company like Delta? Pretty much a couple of years right now. If you quit your job and you dedicated six days a week to training to be a pilot, you can get through all your licenses within a year. And then after that, you've got to build hours. And then you would get on with the regional like SkyWest or Compass or one of the smaller regional airlines. So if you want to work the crappy shift in the weekends, you're making 300 grand pretty quick with having a lot of days off. Welcome to the Rich Stummer's Report where we talk real estate, business and wealth building all while keeping it real. No fluff, no BS. I hope that you enjoy the show. So out of all the airlines, which airlines pay the best if you're a pilot? Right now in the last couple years, it's Delta's kind of been the number one. And meaning they have high pay scale and they also have high profit sharing.

I know guys over there at the end of the year. You get a slice of revenue? Oh yeah.

Every airline is starting to do that to compete to attract pilots, but the airline's got to make

a bunch of money. Where American is just not making that much money right now, Delta and United

are crushing it. And I just text a couple buddies the other day and I go, hey, I see those profits. They all said, profit share coming up. So yeah, you get a piece of that profit. So how much can you make as a captain for an airline like Delta? I mean, Delta is the highest paid. It's wild. So if you work the union contract and you don't just work a schedule you get and you kind of play the game and you go in there and you go, hey, on my days off, I'm going to look for some double pay trips and trade this. I mean, I know guys making close to a million dollars a year as a captain. A million a year? Working the system. Damn. A million a year as a Delta pilot. Yeah.

That's insane.

And how many days off are you holding a month making a million a year? I mean, so I know my dad wasn't doing quite a million. He was crushing it playing the game. And he had a couple months that were like triple his normal, a normal salary pay. And he said, I still got half the month off. It's because he was so fine-tuned into the system of trips, kind of always watching it. And oh, this one's going to double pay. And so, I mean, if you can get paid the same to go fly for 30 minutes or 10 hours, which one would you want? So he would look, he'd be like, oh, if I fly to Phoenix, I would stay the night,

but then I could wave it and come back to San Diego and get four days of pay for one 30-minute flight or an hour of flight. So there's a way to game, and that's one advantage to the airlines where Delta United America, Southwest does it. FedEx is a really high-, another high paying airline as well.

So how much could you make flying, let's say, right seat for Delta or one of these majors? Right seat. I've heard a couple guys making like 600 to 700,000. As a co-pilot? As a co-pilot if they're very senior. Damn. So what happens is if they don't want to be the captain because if you're a new captain, you're working the weekends, you're working the crappy trips, not the high paying stuff. But if you stay as a co-pilot and you move your seniority way up, you would be able to pick every trip you want. So most people, everybody's different, but most people, I want to make as much money as I can in the least amount of work. So that's what allows you to do that as a first officer as a very senior person.

So someone listening to this podcast right now, if they want to get into the aviation space,

they want to become a pilot.

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