EHD, kinda surprised you stuck your head back into the Harbour considering the responses you elicited on other posts!
As you seem to be having a little difficulty grasping why the QF recruiting office isn`t being swamped with mail, let me give my $0.02.
In your example you spoke of someone being a 76 f/o after a little over a year in QF. Said person will now be earning $120,000. This amounts to about $65,000 after tax.
A person in the same position (chronologically) at CX will take home $92,000 after tax (all figure AUD)
12-15 months later, when the CX guy is a JF/O, he will take home $130,000.
6 months after that when he becomes full F/O, he will take home $170,000.
How is our 76 F/O doing at this stage?
Since housing allowance, CoL, prfoit sharing, negative gearing, etc are all objective, lets assume they cancel each other out.
I`m not saying things are perfect at CX, but they could worse.