Back of envelope with some educated guessing involved - $1.7m. You have to understand that those pay rates are (depending on currency fluctuation) replaceable pretty much anywhere in the world. I have two good friends who have left Qf. One in the sandpit and one in asia. Sandpit driver thinks better than QF, Asian driver thinks about the same. Hours are PURELY dependant on rostering - and at Qf it is ridiculously wasteful to have crews on some fleets constantly on assigned leave. It is done in part (I think) to prove pilots are unproductive. Assigned pisses people off like nobodies business because pilots WANT to fly (and their pay is based on it).
Crew pay rates at QF ARE COMPETITIVE. The only thing at QF that isn't competitive is a management 'team' deliberately dismembering and self destructing the company.
Questions for you: How sustainable is it to park brand new financed aircraft around the world doing nothing? How sustainable is it for Qantas to be spending (or have spent) maybe a billion dollars trying to teach Asia how to operate an airline (because no one in Asia has ever thought to do it themselves). Among many, many other major, systemic problems How sustainable is it to gift profitable routes to other airlines? Or any routes for that matter.
It is ridiculous that this crazy crew pay argument comes up over and over and over and over again.