The reason that you can't get solid information is that the company deals with each base individually, with dozens of different contracts. The waters are muddied sot hat no-one really knows what is going on and to prevent cohesion or collective bargaining by the pilots. Divide and conquer, my friend... In short, the UK bases are on the best pay, but FOs in many EU bases are on as little as £18k basic, and captains on £36k. The new contracts are astonishingly poorly paid. Don't forget to factor in all the costs of employment - licence, medicals, equipment, uniform, initial training (recurrent is by company if employed, but paid by you if contractor, and hotac for training is at your cost regardless), food and drinks at work (none provided)...