for easymoney: I don't know how you are making €36000 a year out of sector pay when the avg for a captain in stansted is around £1400 a month which works out to be €25000 a year... in any case...
we are obviously talking about two different situations, you on one hand, are a qualified first officer I, on the other, am a low houred cadet entering on the self funded TR. Given my conditions Brookfield is a better deal in terms of money... and if the company wants people like me to go onto a brookfield contract it is quite logical for it to be that way.
for everyone else asking me what taxes I used on the brookfield contract...
I worked out how much money I made in a year (using the different pay scales depending on the hours accumulated), then found a tax calculator from the irish gov website.
This is the website:
http://www.hookhead.com/Tools/tax2007.jsp
the calculation I have made does not take into account certain tax costs you may be able to claim back at the end of the financial year since you are on a self employed contract. Hence the figure is on the negative side, another reason why I still don't understand why it is such a bad economic deal.
Alex.