Originally Posted by
JustAnothrWindScreen
The current equipment on the aircraft has nothing to do with what I am worth as an airline captain. That is probably not a concept that someone that is not in the airline industry would understand.
What you are worth as an airline captain is dictated by the market. There is often nothing logical about it. Otherwise nurses or care workers would be better paid that footballers.
The notion of having hundreds of souls entrusted into your care is no reason for being high paid either. Otherwise nuclear power station workers or water treatment plant workers would be paid according to the millions of lives in their hands.
In fact there is a paradox in that those with the least responsibilty for the direct care and welfare of others are paid the most and VV.
In the first group I would put actors, footballers, city bankers, etc.
In the second category I would put health workers, sanitary workers, nurses, farmers, police, etc.
Pilots seem to do OK.