Amy Wilder is a private pilot with more than two decades of experience as a writer and editor in a career spanning journalism, marketing, and communications. 
She has worked in aviation journalism since 2023, combining a lifelong passion for flight and a love of the aviation community with a penchant for storytelling. As a licensed pilot, she brings firsthand insight to the stories she covers, lending an authentic, on-the-ground perspective to industry coverage.
She holds a Master of Arts in Eastern Classics and a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts, both from St. John&#039;s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Culture.

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Canadian business aviation salaries are rose between 10% and 22% in the past two years, according to a Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA) survey being formally released this week at the group's annual convention. Ninety business aviation companies in Canada participated in the 2024 survey; the last such CBAA survey was conducted in 2022.
According to the results, flight crew salaries increased between 12% and 22%, while management salaries increased 10% to 12% during the two-year period, depending on industry. Meanwhile, administration and sales salaries remained flat.
CBAA conducted the survey in partnership with consulting firm InterVistas.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbaa-acaa.ca/docs/2025_Comp_Survey_Infographic.pdf">Key findings</a> indicate that management salaries average roughly $153,000 for corporate firms and $125,000 for maintenance and manufacturing firms; flight crew salaries average roughly $147,000 and $129,000, respectively.
It also noted that, on average, corporate flight departments pay 8% more than airline and charter companies, and 13% more than manufacturing and maintenance employers.&nbsp;During the report period, the <a href="https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/250121/dq250121b-eng.htm">consumer price index</a> in Canada rose 3.9% on average in 2023, and 2.4% in 2024.&nbsp;
Factors driving the shifts include ongoing labor shortages and the need to compete for skilled labor, evolving job mixes and seniority levels, and different qualification standards among survey respondents.

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