A FJ pilot five years out of the OCU will probably be on £52,000. How is [it] possible to justify this?
Well that is incorrect for a start. A FJ Pilot that is 5 years out of an OCU today has probably joined in 2013. They hit Valley in around 2016 and graduated from an OpCon in 2018. Now in 2023, 10 years later, they would have spent 2.5 years as a Fg Off and 7.5 years as a Flt Lt. That puts them on £51,500 according to LJ’s post. They will be on Middle Rate RRP(F) of £10,161 per year - total £66,661. Next year they would transition to Tier 2 Rate 1 on the new RRP(F) which is £14,844 per year and they will go to the final level of Flt Lt of £52,868 - total £67,712. In 2025 they will go up another £1k in RRP(F) and be eligible for the first of 2x Aircrew Retention Payments of £40k. If they are a QWI on Typhoon there is also an additional £25k available for them.
Nothing like your £52.5k at all
Figures in last year’s AFPRB report:
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...st-report-2022