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I was looking at St. Louis University's Web site the other day and decided to look up open job positions.
Parks Aviation College was given to SLU in the mid-forties - for those who don't know Parks holds air operations certificate No. 1 and is a fairly well known "old school" aviation school. In other words SLU has abosorbed Parks into the main campus and the aviation degrees are all just part of SLU. They fly out of (Parks) Downtown St. Louis Airport ... literally right across from the Arch on the Illinios side of the river.
Anyway, tuition for most of the undergrad programs at SLU (a private, Catholic university .. anyone can attend it's just not a public/state school) runs about $30k a year. It's the oldest university West of the Mississippi and is very prestigous.
So, I look up aviation jobs and they have three openings. Two flight instructor positions (part time) and one dispatcher position (part time).
For the flight instructor positions they want a Bachelor's degree (or currently working on one in their program) and the pay range is $9.20-$9.40/hr.
The dispatcher position they want a H.S. diploma and the pay range is $9.20 - $9.50.
WTF!? Seriously. WTF!? The students you would be instructing are paying a base minimum of $120,000 in tuition (over four years) and then on top of that paying for the flight time. And all this very prestigous school can afford to pay their instructors is $9.00/hr and they want a BS/BA? Yet they can turn around and pay someone with a H.S. diploma the exact same wage?
Before I get the speech about "those positions are for their students" well, they're not. The "professional pilot" program dumps you out of school with a diploma, about 280 hours and nothing more than a commercial ticket.
Parks Aviation College was given to SLU in the mid-forties - for those who don't know Parks holds air operations certificate No. 1 and is a fairly well known "old school" aviation school. In other words SLU has abosorbed Parks into the main campus and the aviation degrees are all just part of SLU. They fly out of (Parks) Downtown St. Louis Airport ... literally right across from the Arch on the Illinios side of the river.
Anyway, tuition for most of the undergrad programs at SLU (a private, Catholic university .. anyone can attend it's just not a public/state school) runs about $30k a year. It's the oldest university West of the Mississippi and is very prestigous.
So, I look up aviation jobs and they have three openings. Two flight instructor positions (part time) and one dispatcher position (part time).
For the flight instructor positions they want a Bachelor's degree (or currently working on one in their program) and the pay range is $9.20-$9.40/hr.
The dispatcher position they want a H.S. diploma and the pay range is $9.20 - $9.50.
WTF!? Seriously. WTF!? The students you would be instructing are paying a base minimum of $120,000 in tuition (over four years) and then on top of that paying for the flight time. And all this very prestigous school can afford to pay their instructors is $9.00/hr and they want a BS/BA? Yet they can turn around and pay someone with a H.S. diploma the exact same wage?
Before I get the speech about "those positions are for their students" well, they're not. The "professional pilot" program dumps you out of school with a diploma, about 280 hours and nothing more than a commercial ticket.