{"id":344526,"date":"2026-01-08T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-uk-based-pilots-make\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:00:17","slug":"how-much-do-uk-based-pilots-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=344526","title":{"rendered":"How Much Do UK-Based Pilots Make?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/salaries-uk-pilots-2025\/\" >incomes of British pilots are decent<\/a>, although lower than those of their United States-based counterparts. In fact, American pilots can earn double that of British<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>, with a senior British captain earning in the range of $130,000 to $215,000, while a senior American captain can earn $250,000 to $450,000 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK pilots earn more than their French and Italian counterparts, but less than their US and German counterparts on average.<\/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":[396,476,120,629,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-europe","category-pilots","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344526","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=344526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344527,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344526\/revisions\/344527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}