Title: How Much Money Do Crop Duster Pilots Make A Year - Aero Corner
Headings: How Much Money Do Crop Duster Pilots Make A Year
How Much Money Do Crop Duster Pilots Make A Year
Table of Contents
How Much Do Crop Dusters Make?
The Crop Dusting Industry
Crop Dusting is Dangerous
How To Become a Crop Duster (Ag Pilot)
Crop Duster Ag Pilot Salaries
More Than Just Flying and Spraying
Salary Depends on Location
About the Author

Content: Qualifications, experience, and a host of other factors can help determine how much a pilot makes. Salary can range anywhere from $20,000 up to $100,000 or more. It isn’t impossible for ag pilots specializing as crop dusters to earn in the high five figures or beyond – and here’s how and why that’s the case. Editorial Team Crop Dusters Flying side by side
The Crop Dusting Industry
For those who don’t work in the industry, it can be all too easy to overlook just how complex it is and how much goes into crop dusting. For one thing, the popular image of simply spritzing a few plants is erroneous. According to JobMonkey.com, while crop dusters do indeed fly at low altitudes, they don’t just spray water, but also fertilizer, fungicide, and pesticides. They spray more than 180,000,000 acres of farmland in the United States alone. Crop Dusting is Dangerous
What’s more, while steep daring dives a la North By Northwest aren’t typical, crop dusters do indeed fly at low altitudes, and this can be dangerous even if done correctly. The importance, intricacy, and hazards of the job all contribute to the position’s increasing salary. Editorial Team Crop Duster Spraying Corn
According to InternationalStudent.com, crop duster pilots pilots have to undergo a great deal of training before they are cleared to fly crop dusting missions.