Don't know how things were in the past, but I got my first commercial job a couple of months back.
I already have the complete roster for all of 2009 (will have christmas off!), with 143 days schedule (that's a lot of time off!). PCs and medical not included on this but that will only add up to max another few days...
TR paid by company, pay during training, expecting to gross about €50-60k next year.
Good work environment, nice colleagues, expecting to fly about 300-400 hours
pr year, or so.
At 22 and on dead bottom of the seniority list, I'm not complaining :--)