State comparison · 2025
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers salary: Kentucky vs Michigan
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers in Michigan earn a median of $428,570. In Kentucky, $350,950. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12.7% — not 18.1%.
Nominal pay gap
-18.1%
Kentucky vs Michigan
COL-adjusted gap
-12.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
- Median
- $350,950
- p25
- $214,120
- p75
- $398,760
- p10
- $182,780
- p90
- $407,760
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
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.