1. I left a good job with another national carrier to join SIA, SIA was a better offer.
2. Is Farside a Singaporean?
3. The reason Farside is paying that much tax is because they had six months of bonus and a lot of backpay in 2001, excluding these two items a 13 year SIA B744 expat captain would be paying about S$6500 per month in tax, (13 month system in force).
4. When I retired in 2001 as a ten year B744 captain I averaged S$18 to 19000 per month before tax, assuming about 75-80 hours. As The Prisoner says, on leave or standby it was a very flat month, say S$13 to 14000, (Provident fund and rent allowance excluded from these monthly salary numbers but included in tax).