I agree with Bus, this is not a get rich quick type of airline job. You will have to work at it long term. I have been with the company almost ten years, six of which as a Captain and probably only really started saving anything significant (2 500 USD p/m) from about 3 or 4 years ago. I know of people who have managed to save more but with a big sacrifice in lifestyle which I dont think is the way it should be done! You can't live on Schwarmas and its nice to get the kids new bicycle's and give the wife a reasonable allowance. Dubai is an expensive place to live and we have watched it get more expensive virtually by the month. Doesn't make sense though as I would have thought it would be cheaper to bring in household items, meat etc with the drastically increased demand over recent years compared to the early days. I think there is a lot of greedy business going on out there.
New FO's with families will certainly not be able to put much if anything aside and bottom notch Capt's will also have to play things carefully if they want to save anything substantial.
Anyway, no one ever said it would be easy in the desert!
We are still having fun and lifes too short to worry about money so try and stick a bit away for the future without sacrificing too much lifestyle and keep buying that lottery ticket - you never know?