I am giving the figures as I was given. Now maybe Universal might give a pilot up to 4,000 a month and if you add the perdiem of 100 per day then there is 7000. The base at star is 3500 per month, after you are there a while maybe another 1000, or if you are a tough negotiator, that is, with per diem , 7500. All in all, not so great. Especially if you loose some of the per diem. RUM is a flat 3000. base and 100 per day 6000. flat
As for hotels, depends on who is paying. If the contractor is paying, sometimes hotels can be nice, if the company is paying, Globe is the only one I know of that really uses nice hotels. Even Saudia put us in a dump ( Kandara Palace) when I first joined them. Then they later moved to the Intercon