Comparing the fighter pilot salaries around the world requires taking metrics from a variety of forces based on both their composition and organization. The United States of America maintains the world’s largest inventory of military aircraft by a wide margin. It’s an armada of more than 13,000 aircraft. By comparison to the closest adversary, near-peer China, that is more than double the number of planes. Yet these enormous forces are spread across the globe to support allies on every corner of the planet.
