{"id":299488,"date":"2025-10-11T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/salaries-us-airline-captains-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:00:16","slug":"a-look-at-the-salaries-of-airline-captains-in-the-us-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=299488","title":{"rendered":"A Look At The Salaries Of Airline Captains In The US In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"165192\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/pilots\/\"  >Pilots<\/a><\/span> are among the best-paid professionals in the world, particularly as they climb up the ranks of seniority. Airline pilots in the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> have secured bumper new contracts in recent years, aided by their stronger bargaining power amid a shortage of pilots, so it is now more lucrative than ever to become an airline pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial pilots now take home more than ever before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,3422,4599,629,5361,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-captain","category-pilot-salary","category-pilots","category-salary","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299489,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299488\/revisions\/299489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}