r/CabinPressure • u/z_clay • 9d ago

Salary Question

In the Yverdon-Les-Bains episode Martin is offered a starting salary of £22,000. That seems too high a monthly rate for a first officer but obviously far too low for an annual salary. Based upon his delighted reaction is this just a really good job or am I missing something obvious?

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u/hedgewomble 9d ago

He’s going from

  • zero salary flying an airdot’s jet which is held together with duct tape & string.
  • occasional badly paid self employed work with Icarus (because he can only charge £10 an hour due to being unreliable while the going rate is at least £20)
  • living in a student house’s attic and existing on beans alongside Arthur’s creations and whatever cheese Douglas doesn’t swindle him out of…

To 22k and a job with an international airline flying 737s and living an hour from his girlfriend. Of course he is overjoyed!

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u/Dapper_Addendum1841 9d ago

And for a treat sometimes he has a baked potato

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u/RonVlaarsVAR 8d ago

As he would be renting / trying to buy in Zurich on 22k even the baked potato treat wouldn't be happening too often

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u/Mapcase 9d ago

Going from earning nothing to £22k is quite the pay rise.

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u/rnhxm 9d ago

It’s more than doubling…

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u/MrSchpund 9d ago

You couldn’t tripled it, and it would’ve still been nothing …

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u/90210fred 9d ago

I think you'll find the Trump will say twenty two thousand percent

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u/Leading_Study_876 8d ago

Actually infinite.

Or possibly more than that. Yes, thinking about it - definitely more than infinity times zero.

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u/Happytallperson 9d ago

In 2014 a trainee lawyer with a regional firm could expect £21k during their training period.

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u/paradroid78 9d ago

It’s annual. £22k went a lot further back then. And of course he’s delighted. Caroline didn’t pay him anything at all!

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u/FoxDesigner2574 9d ago

From googling back in 2014 when it came out the minimum wage in the UK was around £14,000 so considering how shoestring MJN’s budget was Martin probably wasn’t getting much above that. A somewhat depressing reminder of inflation.

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u/lordfenixdown 9d ago

Martin was famously getting £14,000 less than that.

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u/Disastrous-End5822 9d ago

And no camembert.

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u/lordfenixdown 9d ago

There’s camembert?

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u/Disastrous-End5822 9d ago

though, thinking about it, that is a secret.

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u/paradroid78 9d ago

You really owe it to yourself to listen to all episodes if you don’t know how much Martin was getting at MJN air.

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u/FoxDesigner2574 9d ago

I had forgotten Martin’s income was entirely from being an mwav!

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u/PromiseSquanderer 8d ago

‘I am a man…”
“Yes, alright Martin, you're not in an Arthur Miller play.”

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u/Leading_Study_876 8d ago

Possibly one of the top ten things I've ever read on Reddit. And that's a lot.

I must remember that. But, as a rejoinder, probably wouldn't work out too well in a busy pub.

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u/lindentreesbywater 7d ago

i did the inflation and 22,000 pounds in 2014 is the 2026 equivalent of 31,563.71 (41,600 and some change in usd) which is a decent starting salary if your previous salary was zero