Originally Posted by
Enzo999
I am always amazed at how different other peoples pay is compared to mine. When I was at QR about 5 years ago as a SH FO I was making about £5500 a month maximum of which I could transfer home about £4K if I was lucky. The base pay at EK is 26k AED and hourly pay is 60AED say you do 100 a month (lucky you) and that’s a total of 32k AED a month. Even at these unpredicted exchange rates that’s £6800 (and that’s at spot exchange rates not what you will actually get). It’s good money but a long way short of the 10k, unless you live in a flat share or a tent I can’t see how you get to 10k a month.
if you take the accommodation allowance to buy a property in Dubai it’s close to 10k a month all in as FO, but you will need 100k cash towards the deposit and fees to get a small 3 bed. Almost all the allowance will be used up on the mortgage, high utility bills, insurance, compound management, repairs etc. But it’s a free house from the airline, and yours to keep! Not many carriers offer that, along with the executive car chauffeur drive to work. 😀