Originally Posted by
BigEndBob
In 1980 as a 20 year old i was taking home £25 a week from work. Flight training was £23/hour.
Minimum wage now for 20 year old is 40 x £6.15/hr = £246 week, assume no tax paid.
So hourly rate should be around £225 hour, here in the Midlands.
Interesting. Just for the sake of giving some international perspective - I think it was '84 when I started and the rate was (converted to GBP) approx £22.50 per hour for a Tomahawk or Tiger. I was earning £120/week (before tax), including a half-day on Saturdays.
Today you could hire a Tomahawk for ~£100/hr and I guess a reasonable wage here for a similar job could be £400/week (before tax), or possibly more, so relatively speaking not a great deal of change.
However it does appear that - without considering a great number of other variables - our flying is significantly cheaper per hour worked than yours in the UK.
FP.