The TSO (training) pay at Qantas is now about $37,000/yr.
I'm a bit confused if at Virgin you get paid from the day you walk in the door to commence your training. So you handover your hard-earned $35k for your endorsement, then they pay you a wage of approximately $22k (worked out at $85-90k/year for 3 months) while you're training?
Why not just handover the $13k difference and not get paid for the few months training?