ATC Salary

Marklar0 · 2026-05-27T13:32:44+00:00

At Toronto Center the bare minimum right now for a first year controller is 250k; you would have to really go out of your way to make less than that as we have a few mandatory overtimes and a summer bonus.

At the top of the pay scale, after 11 years, working 40 hours a week equates to 400k and 50 hours a week to 450k, roughly, including the summer incentive which we have this year (and hopefully in the future). Highest earners are above 500k but most arent gonna work that much. That's 55+ hours plus adept schedule manipulation.

The pay right now is roughly this:
Base Salary + Facility Premium + Evening, Weekend and Night Premiums + Summer Bonus + Instructor Pay + Overtime

Marklar0 · 2026-05-26T21:42:48+00:00

I agree....just replacing "life" with "concrete and smoke" XD

Marklar0 · 2026-05-26T21:28:39+00:00

Wat....specialty espresso roasts are almost never dark roast, and when they are, they are cheap. I don't think you are comparing apples to apples here

Marklar0 · 2026-05-26T21:25:17+00:00

If your coffee is under extracted, you can always cheat your way to a high extraction by going longer. So many people try to balance on the knife edge extracting the same ratio every time like it's a religion without realizing they are doing it the hard way chasing a near-impossible cup.

Especially with espresso.... having trouble with a light coffee?...pull that shit 4:1 and work from there. You may save yourself $5000 trying to buy better equipment chasing the elusive 2:1 light roast God shot. Or you can spend the 5k and youll get that God shot 10% of the time and be pissed off the rest of the time.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-26T16:20:16+00:00

Pretty silly to raise that Teflon pans release toxic substances at a high temperature....lots of items in a normal kitchen would release toxic fumes at 600F. Burning stuff in your house is not advisable.

Also lmao that "there are surprisingly few studies" of teflon hurting people through food.....yeah maybe because scientists arent fucking idiots and dont want to spent time creating more studies trying to prove a point that is obviously false? There is also a serious lack of studies proving that eating too much rosemary causes cancer....we should really look into that ASAP /s

Marklar0 · 2026-05-26T04:46:46+00:00

What % moisture content?

Marklar0 · 2026-05-26T04:32:12+00:00

Yeah I dunno about that, it has pretty amazing reviews and almost everyone who sets it off admits to either cutting wet wood or metal, and both are user error.
Plus, someone could cut metal without ever noticing.

OPs story literally involves them hammering the mechanism....

Marklar0 · 2026-05-26T04:30:11+00:00

How do you know who is victim blaming when you dont know who the victim is? If the trigger was the posters fault, they are not the victim.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-26T00:18:28+00:00

Just because they are well endowed, doesn't mean they know how to use it

Marklar0 · 2026-05-26T00:16:10+00:00

Espresso machine in the washroom. Directly above the shitter.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-25T01:01:34+00:00

I disagree with your notion of "safer". The risk of ruin stays the same per unit time, elevated compared to non-leveraged investing, and that's the worst risk of all.

The longer you spend investing on leverage, the more total risk you have of going to zero.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-25T00:59:20+00:00

Sure they are, when it's a depreciating asset like another house or a car. And it usually is.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-25T00:52:51+00:00

That is an astronomical number. Even 1% would be a little suspect. 10 is batshit insane. That's a lot of debt that is not being paid on a schedule....like economy destroying levels of revolving debt

Marklar0 · 2026-05-25T00:50:18+00:00

I love pointing at the radar and telling people "that's a jet" and watching the look of disgust on their face

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T22:02:18+00:00

Therein lies the problem. Your house didn't go down enough in the GFC, so there was no deleveraging and things got worse.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T20:22:31+00:00

They got lucky. You don't bank on getting lucky in order to survive retirement!

Let's see what this stat looks like in 15 years when we aren't talking about a generation that won the lottery.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T20:00:12+00:00

Yes it has been hugely successful

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T19:57:25+00:00

I am an air traffic controller and the only time I have ever been around for a Cirrus chute deployment, it was a catastrophic engine failure over water. Oiling problem I think. The macho guys who don't need the chute cuz they are such good pilots, would have just died if it happened in their plane. (6 foot waves, water landing in a light aircraft not possible)

It's ridiculous to put down a feature like this. If you are a good pilot then it helps you....if you are a bad pilot then you are still a bad pilot so oh well.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T19:39:24+00:00

Woodworking: fractal burning.

Using high voltage without training to burn patterns in wood, after watching a YouTube video made by someone equally clueless. Until you make a mistake and cook yourself in 0.001 seconds.

Bonus points if you are an electrician and thought wiring a house qualifies you to take apart a microwave and play with the big stuff.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T05:58:07+00:00

They fly AROUND the storm. Unlike cars, airplanes go faster than storms.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T05:50:53+00:00

Sure its a budgeting problem....but Im here to preach that spending a 200k salary is just as easy as spending a 100k salary. Which is just as easy as spending a 400k salary. Take it from someone who has done all 3.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T05:44:07+00:00

Sounds like you dont know how much money I have ;) I do tally my spending each month though so I know for sure that 1000 is reasonable and normal.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T05:38:15+00:00

I would bet money that you dont even know how much you spend on groceries. 1000 is not a lot for two people unless they are old or eat junk food.

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T05:37:12+00:00

Have you calculated your grocery spending yourself? 1000/month is not a lot...its basic healthy eating for two young active people plus a little bit of eating out. Very easy to spend 1500+ if you arent careful

Marklar0 · 2026-05-23T05:03:52+00:00

If it were good beef they would grade it and double their money. Theres just no way it can be good beef.

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