Originally Posted by
EatMyShorts!
When I joined before 2006, the starting salary depended on the fleet and could be as low as 42 000 EUR (approx). And even with the higher and unified starting salaries after 2007, there was no automatic jump after 2 years. We have that now, one will get a significantly higher wage in year 3: 66 300 EUR. Including the average block hour bonus and maybe a few extra days you can easily make 80k gross. Without per diems.
And what has happened to GA? In Netjets you will NEVER pay for a type rating. Elsewhere you will. Therefore you can see the "low" starting salary as a way to pay off the training cost.
No. The recent starting salaries are all taken from companies like Jet 2, TUI, DHL, BA, Cargolux etc. You don't have any self sponsored type rating costs there. Given the current situation it might come back again but fact is that few airlines asked experienced pilots to pay for the TR cost pre covid. Even Ryan offered some good deals with a 5 year bond if I remember correct. If a company like Netjets would ask to pay for the type rating no one would take the job. Who wants to pay for a phenom 300 rating? ...and they know this. They would have to fish for pilots with 250 hrs.