At FR we are home everynight. We rarely fly past midnight. We are rarely called to work on our days off. It's a perfect place to be in aviation and raise a family.
Personally I'm on a floating contract and that suits us the best at the moment for our lifestyle. So my gross salary is under €145,000 per year. I work 5 days on earlies and 5 days off then 5 lates...then a repeating pattern and so on.
All the the operational decisions are made by us on day to day basis as we are not in constant contact with ops while airborne. Unless we call them.
We are also soon to get acars, and inevitably your ears will be silent my fellow aviators from the daily 1700 flights that FR conduct at our peak summer by our 300 aircraft, for requests of weather and direct routings etc...