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vicvinegarboiling t1_j0zvqsd wrote

Reply to comment by dinosuitgirl in [OC] Flying home for the holidays? Take a look at the income statement breakdown of American Airlines to see where the money goes by giteam

The corporate side of it would barely be worth showing on this chart. Major airlines have a heavily unionized workforce with over 100k employees. The highest paid employees by far, other than the most senior execs, are pilots. Pilots, especially mainline pilots, get paid very well and have extremely strong unions. I’d say about half of the total salary line goes to pilots. Then the rest will be spread between flight attendants, mechanics, ground crew etc. a small portion will be corporate but it is definitely not the industry to be in if you are looking for large corporate salaries, and given the size of corporate employees compared to the entire org it is a small fraction of the total payroll of the business.

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vicvinegarboiling t1_j11bapu wrote

This should all be pretty much public info for American. Exec pay should be easily googleable as well as average pilot pay and number of pilots, similar info should be available for other work groups. Whether you think they are overpaid is a separate matter but corporate salaries don’t make up a significant enough portion of salaries to warrant breaking it out here.

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scott_steiner_phd t1_j12676l wrote

> I know for a fact the CEO of my airline made more than the whole department of cabin crew and that's just one guy so yeah forgive me for being skeptical 🤨

American's CEO had a base salary salary of $1.3 million , with potential bonuses up to $2.6 million cash, plus and additional stock grants. He was paid a total of $10.4 million in compensation in 2020, the most recent year I could find, with the large majority of that being stock grants that wouldn't show up on the balance sheet (or this chart.)

Edit more recent source: in 2021 he was paid a total of $766,000 cash and $4.2M equity. His $766,000 would not be visible on this chart.

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