Helicopter pilots
19 openings, read from the employers' own websites. Helicopter pilots fly air ambulance, utility and offshore work, tours, news, law enforcement and instruction. Minimums for a turbine seat are usually 1,000 to 2,000 hours; the survey counts them among commercial pilots.
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What it pays Commercial pilots · the Bureau of Labor Statistics' wage survey,
- Median a year
- $123,220
- Employed, nationally
- 47,630
National figures for the occupation as the survey defines it (code 53-2012); an opening's own pay, where the employer states it, is shown on its page. The survey's page.
Sources: the employers' own websites and their hiring systems' public boards; pay: the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.