Your take home pay will be the same with the vast majority of captains (if DEC) and nearly all of the f/o's. As a junior pilot in your seat however, you can expect to work nearly double the duty hours of your senior colleagues with approximately the same number of block flight hours. For example a roster of about 65 block hours will mean you will probably have a duty time of about 120-125 hours, whereas the duty of a senior pilot will be around 75-85. And that is because you will fly double sector days, and multiple short sectors at the middle of the night, and you will get minimum days off, typically 8, maximum 9, whilst others, as admitted in some other FZ thread, get 20-22.
As it stands now if DEC you will NEVER be able to get a descent roster since all those people above you in the seniority list will eventually upgrade, be more senior than you and basically you will get all the leftover flights.
There are some people in this forum that when someone talks about this kind of injustices and many others, like a fine tuned choir, they will tell you off, and that's what is supposed to be. Recently there was a rumor that the bidding system that favors the high seniority pilots will change. I think these people got scared so they even asked the COO to send an email pointing out that the bidding system will not change!
And you will see them, at around 8 a.m when you just came back from a night duty feeling destroyed, freshly shaven with wet look hair, ready for their long day flight after their block of 5-10 days off!
Good luck!
