Airline pilot salary: airline by airline

Captain: about €11,500 to €20,000 a month; first officer: about €5,000 gross a month to start (late 2024)

French contract: captain about €149,700 gross a year; first officer about €74,300 to €91,200 (September 2024)

Captain: about €8,500 a month to start; first officer: about €5,500 (February 2024)

Pay scale not published (amounts are in agreement annexes); fixed salary by rank + hourly flight pay by seniority, 13th month (2022 agreement)

Pay scale not published; according to the SNPL union, no significant structural raise since the airline was founded (May 2026)

Pay scale not published; according to the SNPL union, the scale has been frozen since 2012 and pilots earn about 40% below the French market average excluding Air France (September 2026)

Starting first officer: about €69,000 gross per year; top-scale captain: up to €250,000 (Lufthansa figures from 2022, before raises of over 18% between 2023 and 2026)

Captain: about €8,825 to €14,771 gross a month; first officer: about €5,190 to €8,328, plus a 12.9% allowance (April 2026)

First officer: about CHF 89,000 a year at entry; captain: up to about CHF 220,000 a year at the top of the scale (2025)

Pay scale not published; new collective agreement in force since late 2024 and a 26% employer-paid pension contribution (2024)

Pay scale not published; VC agreement: +7% in 2024 then +5% in both 2025 and 2026, running to end of September 2026

Entry-level first officer: about €3,300 to €5,500 gross per month, then €5,500 to €8,300 after type rating, excluding allowances (KLM, 2026); captain scale not published by KLM

Entry-level first officer: €5,570 gross per month (step 1 of the cockpit agreement) excluding allowances; captain scale not published by Transavia

Pay scale not published; two-stage gross pay increase (2024 and 2026) agreed in March 2024

Captain: about £99,900 to £223,300 a year; first officer: about £74,900 to £167,500, before tax (August 2025)

Captain: about £206,400 to £239,900 a year; first officer: about £101,700 to £145,500, before tax (November 2025)

Captain: about €169,500 to €209,000 a year; first officer: about €55,000 to €85,000 (2024-2026)

No official scale published; Hungarian press cites about €3,500–6,500 per month for first officers and about €9,000–15,000 per month for captains at Wizz Air Hungary, excluding allowances (2025)

Captain: about €87,700 to €164,600 a year; first officer: about €16,000 to €82,200 depending on the step (2022-2025)

Total pay not published; the agreement published in Spain's BOE details the components (captain responsibility premium of about €2,565 to €2,773, 2023 scale)

Pilot scales not published; at TUI Airways (UK) a cadet earns about £37,751 a year after training-cost deductions (2025)

Base salary not published; captains: profit share of £12,655 per full-time pilot (July 2025), cumulative raises of over 24% since 2022

First officer on joining: about DKK 37,900 to 44,300 gross per month (or NOK 40,900 to 47,800, SEK 38,600 to 45,200); captain: scale not published (2026)

Pay scale not published; new pilot contract with over 20% pay rise over three years (2024)

Pay scale not published; Marabu advertises "competitive" pay from day one, including during training, and 35 days of annual leave (2026)

Captain: EUR 3,371 to 5,156 gross base salary per month; first officer: EUR 1,349 to 2,732 per month, plus flight pay (2026)

Captain: about AED 575,000 tax-free a year; first officer: about AED 385,000, plus housing and schooling (July 2026)

Captain: about $17,000 to $24,000 a month; first officer: about QAR 38,100 to 45,900 a month, housing included (2025-2026)

A320 captain: up to AED 674,029 a year; A320 first officer: up to AED 513,732 a year, tax-free, based on 75 flying hours per month (2025-2026)

Captain: AED 50,235 per month fixed + about AED 16,310 flying pay; first officer: AED 37,000 + about AED 11,410 (2026)

Scale not published by the airline; figures reported by the specialist press: captain about SAR 85,000 to 120,000 per month, first officer about SAR 60,000 to 65,000 (2025)

Pilot pay scale not published by Singapore Airlines; staff profit-sharing bonus of 7.45 months' salary (May 2025)

First Officer: target annual salary of HKD 964,646; Second Officer: HKD 629,109 (January 2026); captain scale not published

Captain: about INR 4.75 to 8.5 lakh per month; first officer: about INR 3.45 lakh per month (2023 scale, raised 8 to 15% in August 2026)

Captain: about EUR 10,000 net per month; first officer: about EUR 3,200 to 4,700 net per month, at 65 block hours (2024)

E195-E2 captain: about CAD 215 to 302 gross per hour; first officer: about CAD 75 to 156 per hour depending on fleet (2026)

Pay scale not published by Air New Zealand; entry as first officer on ATR or Dash 8 Q300, five-step selection with a two-day assessment in Auckland (2026)

Hourly scale not published by Atlas Air; five-year contract imposed by arbitration in 2021 with a 32.5% rise in crew pay

Pay scale not published; hiring experienced first officers (1,500 hours minimum), 6 days on / 5 days off roster (2018)

European scale not published; in the US, Vista America lists a $250,000 base salary for a Global 6000 captain and $130,000 for a first officer (2026)

Pay scale not published; nine pilot vacancies, 20/10 or 15/15 rosters, open base or Paris, Nice, Marseille and Madrid (2026)

Pay scale not published: pay is set out during the interview; selection may include a simulator test (2026)