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Message: <blockquote data-quote="falcon back" data-source="post: 5039116" data-attributes="member: 81520"><p>Can you do the math?  If not,  get a 5th grader to explain.  You said a FDX pilot can make $300k a year.   They get close to 90% of their salary in retirement.  That puts them in the $260k maybe $270k range just in pension.  Anything they make above $35k or so puts them even.  Let them make anything in six figures,   they are now $65k or more of where they are now.   Let them make $150k flying Amazon planes,  they are now $115k above where they are now.   Let them do that a few years and they can pay for all the divorces and rehab bills they have racked up.  Do that 5 years and they are now close to $550k ahead of where they would be.  TTKU.</p></blockquote><p></p>