how much money a month do flight attendants make?

Answer 1

It depends on the airline that you work for and how long you've been there. At the regional airline level (the smaller airlines that operate for the major airlines or what people refer to as "commuters") pay starts out at about $15 per flight hour. Depending on the contract you operate under, the pay goes up every year. After one year, you make maybe $16.50 per hour. At 5 years you make $20 per hour. Be aware that the amount of money you make is based on your pay rate and how many hours you fly. $15 per hour sounds like a fairly good wage, but you don't work a 40 hour work week. In fact, Federal Regulations limit how much you can fly. You are limited to:

8 hrs/day
30 hrs/week
100 hrs/month
1000 hrs/year

So, the simple answer to your question is...It varies. But if you figure on average you fly about 80 hours per month at $20 per hour..that equals $1600 per month.

At the major airline level, the pay is much better, but I don't have any realistic examples. In short, flight attendants don't make a whole lot of money unless they've been doing it awhile.

Answer 2

As stated above me, it definitely varies. One thing that the person above me forgot to mention was per diem. Per diem is a reimbursment for money that you spend while you are out working, this is an hourly rate. For instance, Flight Attendants can make over $800 dollars extra a month just in per diem. But generally first year flight attendants with a major carrier can make almost 30K a year so its not bad. Also the Federal Regulations that the person above me said are for pilots not flight attendants, we can on very rare occasions have 16 hour days. Our regulations are a lot less strict than pilots

Answer 3

To add to what the pilot and the flight attendant said, the other big "pay" for flight crew is free air travel for themselves and their immediate family.

Working for a major airline could allow you to travel the world during your time off. There are reciprocal arrangements with other airlines, so you aren't limited to your own airline's destinations. That, historically, has been a lot of the appeal, especially for young (or old) people without young children at home.

But that free travel is on a space-available basis and airlines are keeping their planes much more full of paying passangers in the last few years.

Answer 4

Like pilots...TOO much