I'm trying to find out a breakdown of pay v's costs for new starters at Ryanair....
First of all: new starters MUST pay social security in the country where they are assigned to base according to the new EU law :
EUROPA - PRESS RELEASES - Press Release - Social security: improved and simplified rules for aircrew and cross-border self-employed workers
Therefore a breakdown should be made according to where Ryanair will decide for you to be based and that is decided after your line traing if successful; bear in minf that social contributions vary greatly between different countries.
During your line training you only start getting paid after safety pilot release so up to then you will have paid well over 30.000€ between type rating, hotels and food.
Once you start getting paid you can deduct the TR cost monthly from your LTD (they will have you become a LTD director in Ireland), before you reach 500 hours you will be making between 2 and 3000€ average but again, this was before the new EU rule and is always dependent on how many hours you fly and lately there are way too many F/Os and 1 flying day out of 5 working isn't unusual. I hear of many F/Os flying barely 40 hours lately.
After the 500 hour mark you can expect to make between 3 and 4.5k depending on hours flown but bear in mind that these numbers include TR deductions and Irish social security so a new breakdown would have to take into account much higher SS and a 1k cut after your TR has been fully deducted (approximately 1.5 years after start of line training).
All in all a damn pathetic deal if you consider paying for uniform, car park, food, drinks, renting a place at base,own loss of licence, own pension scheme, own hotels for out of base and sim training etc.