Maverick said "there is no pay for the first 3 to 4 months from start of type rating, then approx E1000/mth for the next 3 months. Then you're on 55/hr minus 4.50 taken from every hour you work which apparently pays for your 6-monthly sim checks i.e recurrency. FOs on 55/hr can expect to stay on that for 1500hrs which will take 2 years."
The actual facts are:
40.5E per hour until the end of the month of Line check at the end of Line Training.
Then 55.5E per hour until 500 Hours.
Then 75.5E per hour until 1500 hours.
Then 80.5E per hour, post 1500 hours. Which is 64,400E pa even if you only fly 800hours.
If you are out of base after the end of Line Training, add 20E per hour.
If you don't think about the 4.5 E/hr sim fee, then it doesn't matter does it?! You're arguments about the race to the bottom don't really hold water. You can't blame the new joiners, its as simple as that. You'd do the same if you were in the same position. But then again, this debate has been done to death already.