{"id":167675,"date":"2025-03-20T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=167675"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T19:45:35","slug":"wait-until-fortune-magazine-hears-what-e-1s-do-for-their-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=167675","title":{"rendered":"Wait until Fortune Magazine hears what E-1s do for their pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_167678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167678\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Starliner-Astronauts-return-on-Space-X-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Starliner-Astronauts-return-on-Space-X-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Starliner-Astronauts-return-on-Space-X-445x333.jpeg 445w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Starliner-Astronauts-return-on-Space-X-768x575.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Starliner-Astronauts-return-on-Space-X-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Starliner-Astronauts-return-on-Space-X.jpeg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The two NASA astronauts stranded by Boeing&#8217;s failed Starliner return on a SpaceX capsule, and were greeted by dolphins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/03\/19\/boeing-starliner-astronauts-six-figure-salary-overtime-compensation-job-risks\/\">Fortune Magazine published a piece<\/a> about the two NASA astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station for nine months. The Boeing Starliner they&#8217;d ridden to the ISS on its first manned shakedown cruise left them stuck up there. While SpaceX had the capacity to retrieve them (as NASA has no manned spacecraft of their own anymore), it has been alleged that the Biden Administration didn&#8217;t want to give Elon Musk the business. By the time this had happened, Musk had allied himself with Trump, and in an election year, they didn&#8217;t want to make them look better. With a new president, SpaceX went up and got them. They splashed down this week, and Neptune sent some dolphins to greet them.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune&#8217;s article is about how these astronauts didn&#8217;t get any additional pay (not overtime nor hazard pay) in exchange for their unscheduled months long ride in space. Fortune even laments the\u00a0<em>low\u00a0<\/em>pay of a NASA astronaut.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA astronauts like the Boeing Starliner\u2019s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore brave the profession for quite little: They make an annual salary of $152,258, according to NASA\u2019s 2024 pay rates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I know that Fortune probably pays its people well, but if they think that $150k a year is &#8220;quite little&#8221;, then I&#8217;m writing for the wrong organization. I&#8217;ll give the author the benefit of the doubt, that they mean it&#8217;s &#8220;quite little&#8221; for the danger astronauts face, what with the primary hazard of the job being exploding on take off, being incinerated on re-entry, or, freezing and suffocating should their tin can leak. For someone who&#8217;s never faced any real danger in their cushy lives, I could see where they&#8217;d think that astronauts are underpaid. Federal judges make a minimum of $243k, Congressmen $174k, and Border Patrol agents from $50k-90k.<\/p>\n<p>Wait until Fortune Magazine hears what hazards our men and women in uniform are expected to face for far, far less than $150k a year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune Magazine published a piece about the two NASA astronauts who were stuck on the International &hellip; <a title=\"Wait until Fortune Magazine hears what E-1s do for their pay\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=167675\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wait until Fortune Magazine hears what E-1s do for their pay<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":167678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}