At this moment, they are not recruiting expatriates.
Moreover, CAL has been not renewing expatriate contracts until last October.
At this moment, CAL is renewing expatriate contracts in local terms between one to three years.
From almost 390 expatriates at the beginning of 2007, we are less than 55 in the B744 and no more than 15 in the B738/333/343 fleets.
Our salaries were cut around U$D 1,000 for FO and U$D 2,500 for Capt per month.
After one year, we haven't had received any notification about rising again the salaries after passing the economy crisis...CAL is posting profit again in the Taiwanese news paper.
Salary for an expatriate FO is around:
Basic Salary: U$D 3,500
Market Allowances: U$D 500
Housing Allowances:NT$ 36,000
All these figures are taxable, 20% flat. But after one year if you were more than 183 days in Taipei/Taiwan you could reduced to 10% and have tax refund in August.
Perdiem is U$D 2 per hour.
Expatriates are paid by flight time (TO to Landing), taxi time is excluded from our pay.
The salary is calculated based in 70 hrs flight time per month.
12 salaries plus a bonus (Basic Salary only).
Last edited by cosmiccomet; 7th Jan 2010 at 23:09.