The first certificate you can be paid to use, and the step where the airline pipeline becomes visible.
Active in 2025
118,314
Change vs 2024
+8,587
Since 2015
+17%
History
2025118,314
2015 · 101,1642025 · 118,314
Last month
641 commercial pilots appeared in the August 2026 releasable file that were not in July 2026. That file covers 47% of active pilots, and newly opted-in airmen look identical to newly certificated ones, so this is an upper bound on issuance rather than a count of it.