Aircraft pilots & flight engineers

Detailed Occupation

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2023 Workforce
208k
Average Age
43.8
Average Salary
$168,804
Average Male Salary
$172,651
Average Female Salary
$111,430

About

Aircraft pilots & flight engineers are most often employed by the N/A industry. The average yearly wage for Aircraft pilots & flight engineers was $168,804 in 2023.

The locations that employ the most Aircraft pilots & flight engineers are Santa Rosa County PUMA, FL, Coffee & Dale Counties PUMA, AL, and North Central Oklahoma Counties--Enid, Ponca City, Blackwell & Perry Cities PUMA, OK. The locations with a relatively high concentration of Aircraft pilots & flight engineers are N/A.

Employment

Employment and salary information for the Aircraft pilots & flight engineers workforce. Aircraft pilots & flight engineers workforce in 2023 was 207,697 people, of which 6.28% were women and 93.7% were men. Aircraft pilots & flight engineers are paid most in N/A but are relatively concentrated in N/A.

Employment Over Time

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Grouping
194,646
Male Workforce
± 10.8k
13,051
Female Workforce
± 2.8k

The Aircraft pilots & flight engineers workforce in 2023 was 207,697 people (6.28% women and 93.7% men). This implies an average annual growth of 42.5% between 2014 (145,776) and 2023 (207,697).

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Employment by Location

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This map shows the states in the United States shaded by average wage for Aircraft pilots & flight engineers.

During N/A, the states that concentrated the best average annual wage were N/A.

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Yearly Wage Ranking

$168,804
AVERAGE WAGE
#13 in the ranking (2023)
$67,727
NATIONAL AVERAGE WAGE
For all occupations across the US

In 2023, Aircraft pilots & flight engineers earned an average of $168,804, $101,077 more than the average national salary of $67,727

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Wage Distribution

Gender
N/A
WAGE GINI

In N/A, Aircraft pilots & flight engineers had a wage GINI coefficient of N/A, which is lower than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly for Aircraft pilots & flight engineers (shown in red) than for the overall labor force (shown in gray).

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Industry

Information on the industries that employ Aircraft pilots & flight engineers and on wages for those in the field. N/A is the industry that employs the most Aircraft pilots & flight engineers, both by share and by number, though the highest paid industry for Aircraft pilots & flight engineers, by average wage, is Couriers & messengers ($329,698).

Occupations by Industries

Metric
Value
208k
2023 Workforce
± 11,181
2.92%
1 YEAR GROWTH
± 7.45%

This graphic shows the share of Aircraft pilots & flight engineers employed by various industries. Air transportation employs the largest share of Aircraft pilots & flight engineers at 70.2%, followed by uninformed with 22.7% and Business, technical & trade schools and training with 3.87%.

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Diversity

Demographic information on Aircraft pilots & flight engineers in the US. The workforce of Aircraft pilots & flight engineers in 2023 was 207,697 people, with 6.28% woman, and 93.7% men. The average age of male Aircraft pilots & flight engineers in the workforce is 44.1 and of female Aircraft pilots & flight engineers is 38.7, and the most common race/ethnicity for Aircraft pilots & flight engineers is White.

Gender and Age

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The workforce of Aircraft pilots & flight engineers in 2023 was 207,697 people, with 6.28% woman, and 93.7% men.

The age ranges that concentrated the largest workforce were N/A years (N/A people), N/A years (N/A  people), and N/A years (N/A people). Among them they concentrated N/A% of the total workforce.

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Ethnicity

Gender

In N/A, N/A% of Aircraft pilots & flight engineers workers were Hispanic and N/A% non-Hispanic.

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Races

In N/A, 85.4% of the Aircraft pilots & flight engineers workforce were White, of which 6.01% were women and 94% men. Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Two or More Races (7.46%) and Black (2.59%).

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Education & Skills

Data on higher education choices for Aircraft pilots & flight engineers from The Department of Education and Census Bureau. The most common major for Aircraft pilots & flight engineers is Transportation but the most specialized major according to RCA in N/A were N/A.

Among the necessary skills for Aircraft pilots & flight engineers, N/A stands, but the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Aircraft pilots & flight engineers need more than the average amount of N/A.

Majors

ACS PUMS data only shows the major for bachelor's degrees. However, we can filter the data based on highest degree obtained.
Type of Majors
Degree

The most common majors achieved by Aircraft pilots & flight engineers in 2023 (counting all academic degrees) were Transportation (46,192 people), Business (24,951 people), and Engineering (24,570 people).

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Education Levels

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The main educational levels achieved by the Aircraft pilots & flight engineers workers were Bachelors Degree (123,308 people), Graduate Degree (35,203 people), and Some college (22,779 people).

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Skills

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Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for Aircraft pilots & flight engineers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Aircraft pilots & flight engineers need many skills, but most especially N/A, N/A, N/A.

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