Title: Why Most Drone Pilot Salaries Are so Low (And How to Increase Yours) - Drone U™
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Why Most Drone Pilot Salaries Are so Low (And How to Increase Yours)
CAN'T MAKE MONEY FLYING YOUR DRONE? YOU MAY BE LACKING THE SKILLS NECESSARY TO TURN YOUR PASSION INTO PROFIT.
WHY DO MANY ENTRY-LEVEL DRONE JOBS PAY SO LITTLE?
INCREASING YOUR VALUE WILL INCREASE YOUR SALARY
-Drone maintenance/repair
-Troubleshooting
-Systems repair/replacement
-Relevant Software Skills
-Operating in difficult conditions
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Content: They’ve got themselves a consumer-grade UAV, the correct certification and a decent portfolio on hand. They may have even shot some aerial photography for a local real estate business. This person, potentially, could find themselves a job shooting drone footage for a small business. If, of course, that person finds the yearly $30k to be too low of a salary for them to live off of, the company can easily find another person who excited to make their living flying drones. There are massive companies that employ teams of low-paid drone pilots, knowing that it’s easy to replace these individuals if necessary. This is basic supply-and-demand economics. Unfortunately, while drone pilots are of value to many companies, there are enough people doing it that these businesses have a good chance of finding someone to do it cheaper. INCREASING YOUR VALUE WILL INCREASE YOUR SALARY
Corporate America is slowly realizing, at the moment, that it is not a valuable investment for them to give drone jobs to pilots who lack important drone-related skills. In assembling teams of pilots who are very good at flying but not good at handling other tasks involved in the work. As a result, they may end up outsourcing expensive services related to drone repair and other necessary maintenance issues.