Not enough! I am worth what the market can be made to pay. Law of supply and demand and all that. Pilots in short supply= well paid pilots. The fact that we are hamstrung by a seniority system which prevents pilots voting with their feet means that we have to have strong UNION REPRESENTATION.
How much is a Financial trader worth? His worth is measured by not screwing up on multi million pound deals. Pilots are employed for as long as they don't screw up in multi million pound aircraft with all attendant third party risks.Financial Traders get paid well to keep them there when there is a scarcity of that type of experience. Sure when the bad times come he is unemployed...Just like pilots.
Unlike other professions, pilots in the UK never seem to benifit from the times when their skills are in short supply.
Why is it that in USA and in Europe pilots don't ask the question "What are we worth?" and try to quantify an answer, they know they are worth what they can make the market pay. That is considerably more than RPI + 1/2%.
[This message has been edited by kippa (edited 22 May 2001).]