Actually the pilot wages at EK are reasonable, certainly better than 90% of the pilot jobs in Canada and they pay for housing and other benefits. Mind you you're working some pretty silly schedules at the moment for it, you have to put up with the whole "you're just lucky to be here management",and a hundered more things that can drive you crazy in the sandbox. Pilot pay at EK isn't the best, but IMHO it's not one of the big issues there. There are a hundred companies in Canada that are doing far more to bring down the pilot profession pay wise than EK. Wish all canadian companies paid EK wages and benefits, then i think you'd find EK able to fill a double daily YYZ 380 full of expat canadians heading home.
Now if you want to talk non management/pilot wages you can be sure that the guy at A/C loading catering or bags is probably making more in a month than his counterpart at EK does in a year.