BALLSOUT, I would hate to have to use the term "apologist", but you paint a very rosy picture where salaries (for F/O's in particular) and the joy of being a contractor, are concerned.
Do you think you are seeing the "big picture" here? suggest a straw poll among your colleagues in other bases before you trumpet 5000€ probably 7000€, for F/0's, the latter figure is what many take each month as Capt's after tax, except the "new- or voluntarily rebased" who take even less.
Let us be honest at least, or perhaps we really should have a little poll.
OK guys, you work for Ryanair, how much baksheesh a month, do you get? in recent times Girona was 7000€ a month as Capt, if not dicked around, and no Annual Leave, after 6 years service
Let the truth be out
The 150,000€ quoted on the other thread ?
. . . my @rse