State comparison · 2025
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers salary: Alabama vs Michigan
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers in Michigan earn a median of $428,570. In Alabama, $136,990. After cost-of-living, the gap is 65.4% — not 68%.
Nominal pay gap
-68%
Alabama vs Michigan
COL-adjusted gap
-65.4%
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
Michigan
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
- Median
- $428,570
- p25
- $215,440
- p75
- $428,570
- p10
- $181,880
- p90
- $428,570
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 96.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +25%
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.