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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520097,00.html
Low Pay One of Many Difficulties Facing Regional Pilots
Pilots who work for regional airlines can earn as little as $12.50 per hour, less than the average hourly wage of a New York City taxi driver, FOXNews.com has learned.
Pilots who work for regional airlines can earn as little as $12.50 per hour, less than the average hourly wage of a New York City taxi driver, FOXNews.com has learned.
Hourly wages for regional pilots start at $12.50, according to Avjobs.com. In comparison, a cabbie in New York averages $17 an hour, the city's Taxi & Limousine Commission officials told FOXNews.com.
Regional pilots, who carried 160 million American passengers across America last year, receive the same FAA-approved training as their counterparts at larger airlines, but they must endure low pay and long hours, among other hardships, if they hope to reach the "major leagues," according to a former National Transportation Safety Board official.
Rebecca Shaw â who co-piloted Continental Flight 3407, which crashed in February near Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people â earned an annual salary of just $16,200 at regional carrier Colgan Air, according to testimony by Mary Finnigan, Colgan's vice president for administration. That revelation came Wednesday, during the second day of National Transportation Safety Board hearings into the deadliest U.S. transportation accident in seven years.
NTSB officials also noted that Shaw once moonlighted in a coffee shop while working for the Virginia-based airline.
Captains at Colgan â like Shaw's partner, Marvin Renslow â typically earn between $50,000 and $53,000, according to the board.