That's because the corporation is a separate legal entity from its owners. If a corporation complies with the formalities required for it to be treated as a separate legal entity, then anyone seeking to collect a debt from, or enforce a claim against, a corporation, would not be able to collect from the shareholders themselves.
The average salary for Airline Pilots is $104,000 per year.The average bonus for Airline Pilot is $0.
Airline Pilots. The average airline pilot received an annual salary of $119,180 as of May 2011, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS category for airline pilots is scheduled air transportation, which included 58,630 pilots, or 86 percent of the 68,350 total number of pilots.