Emirates FOs
Another rumour for you. I have heard that in an effort to obtain experienced pilots EK are selectively offering to match paypoint of your previous airline. So if you were on career point 10 in a previous airline they will match it on the FO scale - and you still get 3% increments after that.
So with no prior experience, you would get say $6.4K US/month tax free (or $60K in HKD pretax terms). If you were on career point 10 you would get $8.2K US/month (or $76K in HKD pretax returns). I have ignored profit share and ERP. With ERP the HK equivalent numbers become $64K and $81K in year 1/10.
Market forces?