What is your take home pay at the end of the month?

[AHARS]

Hi folks,

Thought I'd start one for this forum!

Ops controller, Irish Airline DUB < 2 years, 4 on 4 off, 2600/month after tax and VHI.

Good company and management but I'm aways broke!

Ahars

[Cumulogranite]

What is your take home pay at the end of the month?

poor !!!!!!

[Little Blue]

I take it that's Euros?

[waco]

...........from my tax office...........
3 shillings and sixpence a fortnight..........:{

[DeltaIndiaSierraPapa]

Not near enough I am afraid.

[merlinxx]

Some folks I've mentored through CoG (UK) then FAA Dispatch school now being offered between GBP2 & 2.6K PA by UK air carriers. One outfit in DXB offered AED15K PM = GBP2K you tell me, is that a frigging living salary?. For the many years I've been around, I've never seen salaries so relatively low as they are now. It really saddens me to see this, nye on slave labour!

Rant not yet started!

[blue monday]

On £25k PA Gross, works out at £1569 GBP PM, i am perfectly happy with that but am interested to see what fellow ops officers are on as i honestly don't know what the going rate is on the market. Oh and its not shift work as i imagine that would make a difference.

[excrewingbod]

Merlinxx - circa £20K to £25K is about right for the UK.

blue monday - depends on the operator and how little they can get away with paying you. I've seen salaries as low as £14K for a ops controller at a largish operator and anything upto around £25K - anything above is supervisor/management.

Before I left the crazy world of crewing - was on around £16k a year (or just over £1K a month take home pay) as a crewing officer, which went upto circa £19K as a supervisor. Ops controllers at the time were earning circa £19K - believe they are now on around £22K.

Once outside aviation, its scary how far behind the industry appears to be in terms of salaries. At my new employer, a secretary's starting salary is £25K a year, with 36 days leave a year. I'm on around £30K gross (£1840 per month take home) doing a job that paid £23K in the aviation business.

[blue monday]

Merlinxx - circa £20K to £25K is about right for the UK.

blue monday - depends on the operator and how little they can get away with paying you. I've seen salaries as low as £14K for a ops controller at a largish operator and anything upto around £25K - anything above is supervisor/management.

Before I left the crazy world of crewing - was on around £16k a year (or just over £1K a month take home pay) as a crewing officer, which went upto circa £19K as a supervisor. Ops controllers at the time were earning circa £19K - believe they are now on around £22K.

Once outside aviation, its scary how far behind the industry appears to be in terms of salaries. At my new employer, a secretary's starting salary is £25K a year, with 36 days leave a year. I'm on around £30K gross (£1840 per month take home) doing a job that paid £23K in the aviation business.


Looks like i've done ok then, its my first flight ops job in civi street and is a few years since i left th RAF, just incase it all goes wrong, it best not though as i love aviation, really enjoyed ops in the RAF and really want to be with this company for many years to come and am 99% sure will be ok, but just in case what is it you do outside aviation, (thinking of the transferable skills)Transport & Logistic i assume?

[bxkflier]

FAA Licensed Dispatcher for Scheduled Carrier
$50K per year, 4 on, 3 off, loadsa overtime if you want it. Last year added $20K alone in OT. Add another 10% for shift differential.

Now, divide by 2, and thats $25K GBP, or $35K GBP after OT...

I know newbies out here that start around $35K USD. Fairly comparable all round I guess

[747-436]

I am no longer an Ops controller but last financial year when I was in Ops, salary with Overtime approx £28500.
Without overtime pay was about £25000. Take home varied between £1500-1900 depending on how hard I worked!

[excrewingbod]

blue monday - I'm now an analyst of sorts. Not the most likely career progression, but solving nightmarish crewing and rostering problems over many years certainly helped.

[Lauderdale]

About 6 months ago I started a post called "so where do we go from here?" - or something amongst those lines. The idea behind it being that lots of in Ops (in all it shapes and forms) are actually very skilled in what we do (apart from the long hours and responsability that comes with it all) but in the grander scheme of things we are actually very under paid.

Unless you local Ops Manager decides to start pushing up the daisies then it becomes really difficult to really start earning some serious bucks.

My personal opinion is that this is not fair - and most posts back up my opinion.

I have now decided to leave the Ops room (although still very much in aviation) to at least give myself a chance to have a run at the salary ladder.

hey ho hum!

[stagn8]

Good question, I went from BD crewing (which was good fun but not necessarily hugely remunerated) to SITA (they have a flight ops dept and make you globetrot), learned IT there, then moved on to other more lucrative commercial roles in the airport/airline business. Keep following your nose !!

[opsjockey]

ops control, medium size uk charter airline, 4 on / 4 off, no overtime take home approx £1700 per month...

[crjlover]

regional airline, 6 years (I'm the older in the ops), ops controller and flight dispatcher, 1700 euro after tax.

[CRM Monkey]

What sort of money do the Ops Managers and more senior staff get?

Thanks

[Lauderdale]

Me thinks that Ops Managers are about the 50K mark, depending on airline size and organisational set up.

[merlinxx]

There has to be a differential* in title here:

Operations Manager : Flight or Ground

In some organisations, Flight also involves management of the Flt Crew function.
These are Aircrew or ex Aircrew functions.

Where as where true Flt (not turnround supervisors) Dispatchers are involved,
then the 50K+ GBP is realistic. Where there are no Real Flt Dispatchers involved, then apply supervisory scales, i.e. maybe 30 to 35K GBP.

Ask me how I know, I was one of the real ones, but then that was tax free.My last one in the UK was 44+K GBP + bonus/share options etc.,
50+K in the end.

You must take into account, pension, medicare, transport allowance, subsidised catering (cheap company/airport canteen), overtime ratio, leave allowance, staff travel (if any) etc., etc. They all add up to the overall package.

Cheers Merlin (not the Acft/Heli or aero engine)

* This gets back to the qualification of the title 'Dispatcher'. I had never heard this applied to Ramp personnel until around the mid 90s, it always was a Flt Ops function before then.

[Ground1]

Pax Services Supervisor @ GLA , approx £1250/month with no o/t. Rubbish!!

[ralle72]

german charter airline.
licensed and working as ops controller and flight dispatcher. after 7 years ca. 3k eur net salary, depending on number of night shifts/weekends. working 6 on, 3 off, every 6 weeks 5 on, 4 off (8hour shifts).
roughly 2.4k gbp.

[Lauderdale]

Allright for some then............................

[Slow Progress]

Recently enlarged uk charter carrier,

Flight Planning, Slot coordinator with FAA licence take home with no overtime £1498.

Not that good considering 10 years plus service

Slow Progress

[slair76116]

Middle East VIP Jet operater...I just landed ops controller after 1.3 years as Flight dispatcher...

Salary = 3000+ GBP
in local currency that's more than AED22,000 senior ops controllers get close to 4000GBP I think

I work 4 days on 4 days off in an extemly stress full envoirment...:sad:
but the pay is good

and it's tax free//but that total salary is the whole thing...yo wont get a penny more other than childresn school and medical + tickets for you and your spouse...

[ferhankaka]

hey slair!

I am assuming that u had tonns of experiance before joining as dispatcher....but still that is pretty awesome pay in the middleast...is that with accom?

i am planning to become a flight dispatcher....have no experiance...wondering what to expact man...any heads up would be good!