Ok Kelly - and how much does YOUR employer pay you in per diems? Would it be in the order of three or four quid an hour? Maybe four or five hundred a month? Six even? You wouldn't seem to have been paying attention at all here. The €60k or roughly £40ish is the smaller portion of a Ryr pilot's salary and that suits us fine - the less we have to pay Gordon Brown the better. The company pay the lions share in a cheque each month which is net of taxes and I'll venture this far outweighs the sum other companies pay in the form of per diems!!! We work very hard but one thing you won't generally see us complain about is the money that goes into our pocket. What comes back out again is another matter however!