It’s not a money thing. It’s a shortage of people who are mentally able to do the job mixed with terrible hours and early forced retirements. ATC school has a failure rate of over 50 percent.

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wk_end 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's partially a money thing. ATC is under-compensated. They'd get more - and more talented - people interested if the money made up for the stress, hours, and early forced retirement.

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arrowsmith an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Why not both? If it paid better then more people would apply to ATC school.

	▲	selectodude an hour ago \| parent [-]
		ATC positions already have a very low chance of even getting a spot in ATC school. There are tons of applicants for every opening.