Perpetuating the Myth

cyyz · Post by **cyyz** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:16 am

http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Custom/MSN ... 79829-xc-2

High-Paying Jobs in the U.S.

Top Paying Jobs Overall
The jobs that pay the most require at least a four-year college degree. According to the Employment Policy Foundation, the nation's 12 top-paying jobs -- and the mean annual income reported in 2003 (the most recent year data was available) for each -- were:

Physicians and surgeons $147,000
Aircraft pilots $133,500
Chief executives $116,000
Electrical and electronic engineers $112,000
Lawyers and judges $99,800
Dentists $90,000
Pharmacists $85,500
Management analysts $84,700
Computer and information system managers $83,000
Financial analysts, managers and advisers $84,000
Marketing and sales managers $80,000
Education administrators $80,000

bezerker · Post by **bezerker** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:14 pm

http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca/wageinfo/Cont ... 0&NOC=2271

We are halfway there in Alberta. I'm glad to see that most of my coworkers out there are making $65,000+.

I don't know what everyone is bitching about.

Canus Chinookus · Post by **Canus Chinookus** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:27 pm

not everyone is bitching!

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:05 pm

Wages don't tell the whole story, when you factor in an employers
contributions to pension plans and supplementary health benefits like glasses, dental, drugs extra hospital, long and short term sick benefits or other perks like free medicals, uniforms, shoes, and charts.
When added up,it comes out to a lot more than shows on the charts above that you'd be paying for as well.

Panama Jack · Post by **Panama Jack** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:10 pm

Driving Rain, don't forget to add in the 2X yearly simulator evaluations, cosmic radiation, missed and irregular (and often unhealthy) meals, jetlag, 1X or 2X career determining medicals, unstable industry with untransferable senority and mostly untransferable skills (to other industries or professions), low starting wages, high divorce factor. When added up, it comes out to a lot more than shows on the charts above that you are paying for as well.

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:38 am

Driving Rain wrote:Wages don't tell the whole story, when you factor in an employers
contributions to pension plans and supplementary health benefits like glasses, dental, drugs extra hospital, long and short term sick benefits or other perks like free medicals, uniforms, shoes, and charts.
When added up,it comes out to a lot more than shows on the charts above that you'd be paying for as well.

Shirley you're joking? Pension wha? bene...hahaha...fits...whoa ha ha ha

Are you sure we work in the same industry?

CJ

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:57 am

Shirley you're joking? Pension wha? bene...hahaha...fits...whoa ha ha ha

Are you sure we work in the same industry?

CJ[/quote]

Hey, my names not Shirley!

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:25 am

Panama Jack wrote:Driving Rain, don't forget to add in the 2X yearly simulator evaluations, cosmic radiation, missed and irregular (and often unhealthy) meals, jetlag, 1X or 2X career determining medicals, unstable industry with untransferable senority and mostly untransferable skills (to other industries or professions), low starting wages, high divorce factor. When added up, it comes out to a lot more than shows on the charts above that you are paying for as well.

Panama,
As far as I know there is no sim anywhere for the CL-415. P.Q. has a 415 FTD but we don't use it so no worries there. 415's don't fly high enough to worry about cosmic radiation. Been married to the same girl for 30 years and I'm home almost every night, in truth I might be away for 1 month total in a year. I don't know if that's good or bad.

When I think about our pilot roster very few are divorced, it's less than the national average. Maybe waterbomber pilots really are better lovers.

I pack my own lunch and depending on the OIC the meals provided when working late aren't too bad. I might miss 2 or 3 meals in a season. People who know me say that ain't bad either.

It wasn't always this good but over the years we've fought to make this a job that you really like going to work and doing.
I hang around on this board to reinforce just how good I've got it. I suppose now there'll be a flood of applicants.

I forgot to mention I use the company dumpster behind the hanger to dispose of my household garbage and that saves me 4 bucks a week too!

lawndart · Post by **lawndart** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:09 am

The cosmic radiation exposure might not be as serious a problem as first thought. A study of 10,000 pilots over 17 years found no significant increase in cancer attributable to cosmic radiation:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articl ... tid=124549