43 Inches, the style of work program you are promoting is all that is wrong with aviation in Australia.
To earn decent money at Rex on the SAAB, you must sacrifice any hope of a decent lifestyle and your self respect.
The salary package combined with the system of claims, (purely designed to get out of paying what you are owed), is a disgrace, reflected by their lack of ability to retain pilots, or attract new ones.
Absolute bottom dwellers.
I will repeat for the hard of hearing, I'm not promoting or saying the Rex deal is good, and have said numerous times they need to do better, especially in the lifestyle part. Laying out what they earn is just being truthful, I suggest you put down what your airline experience pays you and what you get as real pay, not what the EBA says. but what you end up with in reality, then we can see where pilots should be aiming for. I'm still yet to see anyone post that, just random base salaries that mean nothing. As I said earlier I'm all for a Union that lays bare what each airline actually offers, base+allowances+leave+super for what workload. There are some sites that try, but they are very fudgy with Australian airlines. Or are there a number of pilots out there embarrassed at what they accepted to fly the shiny jet they always dreamed of? I know Jet* flogs you for the money you get, VA does as well, it is better than the SAAB for sure, but what are the pros and cons of earning that extra $100k?
A savvy Captain, can turn that into 500 hours (yes, working less) a year and an additional $100k-150k pretty easily by knowing the way things work.
And there is that, if you really know your EBA at places like Rex you can earn more for less work.... Work smarter, not harder as they say. From experience once you get into larger airlines it can be harder to twist the crewing officers to what you want, so you may get paid more but you are more likely to fly the roster they give you without alteration. But the bidding processes are better, especially once you get seniority, so the roster is more what you wanted anyway.