I have a friend who has just this week been attending interviews at job agencies looking to be a PA to banking execs. The package for PA's as a standard now she tells me is $65K base + super + 20% bonus.
No degree, no tech skills, no hard slog in jobs paying $20K a year in northwest Australia to get there, no 12 week reviews/job compromising situations (read: cyclics), no responsibility for peoples lives.
Obviously what is offered is what the company feels is adequate remuneration for someone who is seen as important to the operation and worthy of such a package - and I'm sure PA's can't be that hard to find.
Tell me again why FO's are only worth $51K with no bonus or profit sharing? We won't even start on the other ranks.
Disgraceful.