Originally Posted by
FO NappyBum
Unfortunately with the cost of living, buying a house or supporting your family: $60–80K as a FO doesn’t go far. Eastern and Sunstate EBAs are always the lowest on the qantas IR team - they’ll drag it on for 12 + months and offer back pay, take it or leave.
Virgin, alliance, network are all hiring mate. While the industry is hot I’d be trying to get into a comfortable seat. Most current linkers are jumping … well trying to jump to a comfortable seat, that should tell you enough.
And it's hard to believe but Rex EBA will have you earning more as well and probably a faster time to command, especially if you compare to the QLink 200-300 fleet, it could be 10s of thousands more per year for similar workload. Easterns and Sunnies have a lot to do this EBA, they are way behind CPI on remuneration, probably somewhere in the region of -20%! (and that's before this years CPI is added)