Kredi
Airline transport pilot certificate (ATP)
The certificate every airline captain must hold. The FAA counts holders precisely — certificate plus valid medical — which makes the gap against airline employment unusually well measured.
Pa gen okenn valè koute verifye.
Pa gen okenn tanperati ki pi wo pase 0 °C. Li se yon eta ki pa endepandan.
Pa gen peryòd ranbousman — pa gen okenn montan pou peye. Priyorite a se anba a.
Si pa gen okenn chif ki anwo a ka verifye nou pa pibliye okenn pi plis pase yon estimasyon.
Poukisa pa gen okenn chif koute isit la
Almost all flight training happens outside the federal student-aid system, so no government dataset records what it costs. The published numbers in circulation come from flight schools quoting their own prices, which is marketing rather than data. The FAA sets the hour requirement — 1,500 flight hours for the unrestricted certificate — and what those hours cost depends entirely on how you build them.
The binding requirement is 1,500 flight hours for the unrestricted certificate, reduced to 1,000 or 1,250 for graduates of approved degree programmes. Most people build those hours over years while working as flight instructors.
The certificate does not expire, but the medical certificate does, and losing it ends the career.
Ki kantite moun ki gen sak ki kantite moun ki travay nan jaden an
Nimewo ki pa nan figi salè a
Nan 181,742 holders of an active airline transport pilot certificate Konte nan 2025, Resansman 2010 la 103,560 travay nan travay li se pou yo — 57.0%. Ki kite 78,182 detèktè li pa kont pou.
Sa a se yon limit anwo, pa yon pousantaj desans. Te gen yon kredi se pa menm bagay la kòm chèche pou travay ak li. Gap la gen tout moun ki te deplase nan jesyon, edikasyon, lavant, enspeksyon oswa yon travay ki gen rapò ke dosye done federal anba yon lòt ocupación; tout moun ki te retire oswa kite san yo pa remèt kredi; tout moun ki travay part-time, ajans oswa travay pou tèt yo nan yon fason ke sondaj emplois pa capture; ak tout moun ki te gen li kòm yon dezyèm string pou yon lòt travay. Se konsa, gap la se plafon an sou ki jan anpil moun ki gen eksperyans pa ap travay nan domèn sa a - figi a reyèl se pi ba, e li pa yon kont de nenpòt moun ki se san travay. Ki sa ki pare a fè etabli se gwosè a nan pisin lan ki pibliye figi a peye se silans sou, ki se bagay la pa peye sit wèb montre ou.
De pati yo se kont ki rete. Detentè sou yon dat kont travay nan yon peryòd — menm kalite kantite lajan, ki se sèl rezon ki fè de ka divize nan tout.
Ki sa ki gen ladan kont la: FAA counts an airman as active only when they hold both the certificate and a valid medical certificate, so lapsed and medically disqualified pilots are already excluded — which makes this a tighter count than most credential registries. Pilots are classed by their HIGHEST certificate, so nobody here is also counted among commercial pilots. It includes 1,795 holders whose airline transport rating is for helicopters only.
Denominatè: holders of an active airline transport pilot certificate = 181,742 (Standing count of people holding the credential, as at 31 December 2025) · FAA, US Civil Airmen Statistics 2025, Table 4 — Estimated Active Pilot Certificates Held · View
Airline pilots are one of the few groups where the gap is easy to read: the certificate is held for life once earned, so it accumulates retired pilots, while the medical requirement removes those who can no longer fly. Corporate, cargo and government pilots also hold it and are counted under other occupations.
Ki sa li pèmèt ou fè
Salè a gen rapò ak travay la, pa ak lisans lan. Sa yo se travay li bay ou dwa pou yo.
| Job | Èske li nesesè? | Median | Travayè |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | Legally required to hold the job | $232,140 | 103,560 |
Sit ofisyèl (an angle) Sit ofisyèl (an franse) Sit ofisyèl (an angle) BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
Èske li peye pou li?
Travay sa a deblotché peye yon mwayèn de $232,140, kont yon mwayèn travay-pouvwa de $50,020 sou chak travay nou pibliye - yon prim de sou $182,120 Nou pa ka fè sa tounen yon peryòd rekiperasyon, paske pa gen okenn chif ki ka fè konfyans pou sa sa koute pou jwenn li – mwatye nan calcul la se reyèl e li pibliye, e mwatye lòt la nou pa gen.
Li sa a kòm yon konparasyon ak yon travay mwayèn, pa nan travay ou. Ki sa ki se bazline a, ak sa li pa gen ladan
Li pa t' gen okenn travay. Tout figi ranbousman sou sit sa a se kondisyonèl sou yo dwe anboche nan travay la. Sa a se supposition a kredatif-posede kont la anwo egziste pou teste, epi li se supposition a chak lòt sit peye fè san yo pa di anyen.
Ki sa ou bezwen anvan ou kòmanse
- A commercial pilot certificate and instrument rating
- 1,500 flight hours, or 1,000-1,250 via an approved programme
- A first-class medical certificate
- Age 23
Pa fè sa si
- you cannot hold a first-class medical certificate — everything else is irrelevant without it
- you cannot fund several years of low-paid hour-building before the airline pay begins
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