Originally Posted by
lpokijuhyt
fireflybob: excellent post! I found it fascinating that the article was dated from 1966. Amazing that the salary of the First Officer and Captain was more in 1966 than it is today at many airlines. I don't no whether to laugh or cry (maybe I'll throw my fist through the computer monitor while laughing and then cry?)
You can put those pre-decimalised 1966 annual salaries into
this calculator for some idea of what they're worth today.
Depending on which of the 5 ways you measure the worth I would say they're fairly similar to today's salaries, or certainly not as comparatively large as I expected.
(Recap on the 1966 salaries quoted in the Hamble advert: For BEA/BOAC, New FO: £1300/annum, 3-year FO £2300/annum, senior Captain over £5000/annum.)