First year Captains Kingair or Metro is:
Base salary: $51,350 plus
PACR allowance: $2,114
Remote area allowance: $6,921 (also avail in DN)
Jeppesen allowance: $243
Total: $60,628
Base salaray goes up (at the moment by 2% p.a. plus 6% after 3 years service).
Metro FOs are earning something in the order of $42,500.
Mostly FO positions are being filled with QANTAS cadets at the moment so BE20 captain positions are probably where you start and then move on to Metro Captain if you want. You're frozen in your position and base for 2 years and there is a pro-rata bond of $9 - $12K reducing from 6 months into your employment ending at $0 after the two year period.
KingAir flying is contract charter (in Port Hedland) and aeromed in Katherine and Gove and aeromed/charter in Darwin. I think about 2,500TT required with 500 multi command (100 multi command at night for aeromed) and Port Hedland is less stringent (on the night hours).
Metro is all contract charter and a little ad-hoc charter in Darwin and Alice Springs.
You'll only fly about 4-500hrs a year and mostly do about 30 hour duty weeks. Not too stressful, however aeromed is standby at home and takes up a fair chunk of your life. It's decent flying and conditions (hopefully going to get a little more dough soon
) and is for anyone who can give a couple of years of honest service.
A happy employee!
