{"id":428758,"date":"2026-05-15T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-airline-captain-hourly-pay-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:53:59","slug":"a-look-at-the-hourly-pay-of-us-major-airline-captains-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=428758","title":{"rendered":"A Look At The Hourly Pay Of US Major Airline Captains In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2052302\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-us-major-airline-capatains-make-2026\/\" >US commercial airline pilots are among the best-paid in the world<\/a><\/span>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/transportation-and-material-moving\/airline-and-commercial-pilots.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >BLS reporting that the average American pilot earned around $200,000 in 2024<\/a>. However, that single number hides the major gap between first-year first officers and experienced captains. The captains employed by the major US airlines are often some of the best-paid in the experienced captain cadre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Three US carriers tend to offer the highest pay for Captains, whose widebodies are often the pinnacle of flying careers.<\/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":[396,476,3422,629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-captain","category-pilots"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428758","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=428758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428759,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428758\/revisions\/428759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}