Jetblue pilot training

[M20F]

9 hours ago, carusoam said:

Looks like the same 6MM is possible over the lifetime of an engineer. 

$3,883,500 for the engineer using the numbers you provided.

[aviatoreb]

9 hours ago, carusoam said:

Compare to an engineering degree from Rutgers, a NJ state school. $30k X 4 = $120k.

Starting salaries for Chemical Engineers = $46,700.

5 years experience = 70k

10 years = 80k

20 years = 100k

Siri supplied these numbers, not from real experience...

Start working at 21 years old, Finish at 65 years old if you want to... 44 years.

Looks like the same 6MM is possible over the lifetime of an engineer.  Save and invest wisely....

Same corporate hassle, same corporate downsizing.

For a really interesting life, marry a girl who does the same kind of work as you... 

Best regards,

-a-

Both anecdotally, and also from a bit of reading, I think the starting salary for undergraduate degree in chem engineering starts at ~65k.

http://naceweb.org/s03182015/top-paid-engineering-majors.aspx

But not every kid wants to be a chemical engineer, or has the aptitude, or wants to be an engineer of any kind.  But with that Jet Blue program being so expensive - how does it compare to the cost of getting through a university aviation program?  Seems as if it might be close.  If that is the case, it seems like career advising would best suit going the university route since you can be a pilot, or if that doesn't work out you still have a university degree to do something else.

[fantom]

3 hours ago, BDPetersen said:

United had a similar program in the '60's. The difference being they only had to get a candidate to 200 hrs and a Commercial/Instrument. Don't know how many pilots they turned out that way.

Less than a hundred, mostly the kids of United employees.