Kredi
Commercial pilot certificate
The certificate that first lets you be paid to fly. Most holders are on the way somewhere else — instructing, building hours — which is exactly why the number holding it and the number employed as commercial pilots are so far apart.
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
Flight training sits almost entirely outside federal student aid, so no government dataset records what reaching this certificate costs. We would rather show nothing than repeat a flight school's own price list as though it were data.
The FAA requires 250 flight hours, or 190 through an approved school. How long that takes depends on how often you can afford to fly.
The certificate does not expire; the second-class medical certificate it depends on does.
Ki kantite moun ki gen sak ki kantite moun ki travay nan jaden an
Nimewo ki pa nan figi salè a
Nan 118,314 holders of an active commercial pilot certificate Konte nan 2025, Resansman 2010 la 47,630 travay nan travay li se pou yo — 40.3%. Ki kite 70,684 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: Active means certificate plus valid medical certificate. Pilots are classed by their highest certificate, so anyone who has gone on to an airline transport certificate has left this count — these are people whose top qualification is the commercial certificate. Many of them are flight instructors, or are building hours towards an airline transport certificate, and federal employment data files both elsewhere.
Denominatè: holders of an active commercial pilot certificate = 118,314 (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
The unaccounted-for figure is larger here than almost anywhere on this site, and most of it is not unemployment: flight instructors, agricultural pilots, corporate and charter pilots and hour-builders all hold this certificate and are counted under other occupations or not at all.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial Pilots | Legally required to hold the job | $123,220 | 47,630 |
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 $123,220, kont yon mwayèn travay-pouvwa de $50,020 sou chak travay nou pibliye - yon prim de sou $73,200 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 private pilot certificate
- 250 flight hours, or 190 via an approved school
- A second-class medical certificate
- Age 18
Pa fè sa si
- you expect this alone to get you an airline job — it will not; the airline certificate is a separate and much longer requirement
- you cannot hold a medical certificate
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