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Commercial Pilots
Pilot and navigate the flight of fixed-wing aircraft on nonscheduled air carrier routes, or helicopters. Requires Commercial Pilot certificate. Includes charter pilots with similar certification, and air ambulance and air tour pilots. Excludes regional, national, and international airline pilots.
What a commercial pilot does
Become a commercial pilot
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good commercial pilot
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $312 per hour with an average salary of $105,200 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $121 and $408 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $102,700 and $394,500 per year.
- 67% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $335 per hour with an average salary of $339,400 per year.
Commercial Pilot job outlook
- There are 1,183 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 222 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 1% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 4% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.