Kept pay the same The Yank says. All the freighter pilots have taken a 5% pay cut in money no longer being paid to them. For everybody who lives outside the US of A the insidious backward creep of the greenback has meant a real loss of earnings in excess of 20% so in fact we have over the last two years lost a quarter of our salary, now call me a bluff old traditionalist but 25% is a pay cut in my book?