Pay & conditions · Asia-Pacific
Japan Airlines: pilot jobs, pay and conditions
Japan · Legacy · JL / JAL
Hiring selectively
No foreign-pilot direct-entry programme found; right to work in Japan required.
Pay
Unofficial figures. Not from an agreement or the airline: collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Treat them as indicative.
First officer
JPY 7,200,000–12,000,000 a year
about $46–76k a year
Captain
JPY 15,500,000–25,000,000 a year
about $99–159k a year
Aggregator estimates, years 1 to 10, base pay.
Open vacancies (0)
No open pilot vacancies listed right now.
Conditions
- Allowances
- Duty/overnight allowances.
- Roster
- Japan-based.
- Bases
- HND, NRT
- Fleet
- A350, B787, B777, B737
- Benefits
- Pension, medical, loss-of-licence insurance, staff travel.
- Union
- JAL pilot union
- Careers site
- job-jal.com ↗
Requirements
- Type rating
- company-paid
- Licence
- JCAB licence
- Other
- Right to work in Japan; Class 1
Sources
Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only · figures from 2026 · checked 30 Oct 2026
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