This year’s study covers compensation data for 2022 collected from 69 organizations, including 49 association members. Approximately 60% of the firms covered in this year’s study also participated last year.

Beyond pay rates, the report offers findings on a broad spectrum of employment practices and benefits to present a fuller picture of how business aviation operators attract and retain their workforce.

Among other key findings, the Base pay rates in 2022 across most job families continued to exceed pre-COVID (2019) compensation rates. 
 
As in prior years’ findings, the corporate aviation sector continues to report generally higher compensation rates relative to other sectors of the industry. And it has paid, on average, 11% higher than Airlines/Charter firms and 19% higher than Maintenance/Manufacturing firms across comparable job families. Although business aviation may be a niche within the aviation sector, it is a lucrative one.