{"id":325590,"date":"2025-11-30T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/salaries-low-cost-carrier-pilots-us-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:00:14","slug":"a-look-at-the-salaries-of-low-cost-carrier-pilots-in-the-us-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=325590","title":{"rendered":"A Look At The Salaries Of Low-Cost Carrier Pilots In The US In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming a commercial airline pilot in the US is an exciting career path for those who dream of flying for a living. Despite the substantial initial investment, it can also be extremely financially rewarding over the long term, with experienced captains able to earn in excess of $350,000 annually at legacy carriers such as <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot salaries across the commercial aviation industry can vary significantly<\/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":[396,476,413,1041,5230,581,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-frontier-airlines","category-low-cost-carrier","category-pilot-salaries","category-spirit-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325590","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=325590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325591,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325590\/revisions\/325591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}