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I thought a pilot was roughly a low six figure job? I'm amazed it's below £50,000.

What I would say though, is both pilots and train drivers are in charge of transporting hundreds of people (thousands per day, if a train driver is making 5 or 6 journeys) and yet, the relative skills are probably broadly similar, except a pilot is unlikely to come across anything once he is up and running, where as a train driver could have people running on the track, animals, cars at level crossing etc... to deal wth.

I think the question is not why are train drivers so highly paid, but why are nurses so massively undervalued?

I say this being as frustrated as anyone that I can't get the train through from bathgate or the return to bathgate at the times I want when I'm working, and it seems likely to impact my plans for my gig next weekend.

You could be correct on pilots, I thought I had seen they were paid about £40,000 as a starting salary on the budget airlines.

I get the point about Train drivers having to deal with outside issues on the track ect but then you could say the same about bus drivers who also transport hundreds of people a day and also have to work nights and weekends. I believe a bus driver is paid about half of what a train driver is paid for doing broadly similar roles.

Is a train driver overpaid or a bus driver underpaid?