How much do Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers make in Mobile, AL?

Percentile spread

For Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers, the published 10th percentile is $97,650 and the 90th percentile is $339,140. The difference is $241,490, which is 136.7% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $130,520 to the 75th at $339,140, covers $208,620.

The mean annual wage is $209,110, which sits above the median of $176,620. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

Hourly wages are not published because BLS reports this occupation on an annual basis. Hourly and annual wages.

National and state comparison

The Mobile, AL median is 23.9% lower than the national median of $232,140 for Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers. In 2024 national prices the local median is $200,481, which is 13.6% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 28.9% higher than the Alabama median of $136,990.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Mobile, AL is 88.098, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $176,620 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers at $200,481 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

One other metropolitan area within 200 miles publishes a annual median for Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers. Mobile, AL ranks 1st of 2 on that median, counting itself. Distance is the great-circle mileage between Census Bureau internal points (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Core Based Statistical Areas, internal points (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG).).

• Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL is 62 miles away, with a median of $122,210 and employment of 90. That median is 30.8% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $125,065, against $200,481 here.

Employment share

Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers accounts for 0.02% of wage-and-salary employment in Mobile, AL (30 of 172,550). Nationally the occupation is 0.07% of employment (103,560 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.26 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.