State comparison · 2025
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers salary: Alabama vs Idaho
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers in Idaho earn a median of $507,640. In Alabama, $136,990. After cost-of-living, the gap is 71% — not 73%.
Nominal pay gap
-73%
Alabama vs Idaho
COL-adjusted gap
-71%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
- Median
- $136,990
- p25
- $126,440
- p75
- $165,340
- p10
- $108,890
- p90
- $176,620
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
Idaho
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
- Median
- $507,640
- p25
- $216,750
- p75
- $507,910
- p10
- $120,740
- p90
- $507,910
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 95.5
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Cost-of-living adjustment from BEA Regional Price Parities (overall index). Hiring velocity from DOL OFLC public disclosure data, recent 180 days vs prior. See methodology.