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Not been a bog standard line captain for a good few years now, but as a TRE total take home with half decent months sector pay is about £7500.
That obviously includes all the increments for training and the pilots allowance which is £6k and after pension comes off.
Take off a grand or so for line captain (pure guess but won't be far off I assume)
If its less don't shoot the messenger.
Depends on base and local base agreement as well, and your time in company so to add your annual "pay rises" which do not cover inflation (thus in reality are still paycuts, just a little more then getting nothing), no correction for RPI or CPI on cards.
Captain in UK base (non-STN) for under a decade, take home pay in current account after taxes and pension contributions ~£3,750 with a fortnight later sector pay/annual leave allowance ranging £1,000-£2,500 depending on productivity, days off worked, block hours in month and/or holiday.
Work it out in busy summer months ~£6,000+ and winter months ~£5,000- provided not too many standby duties on roster (they're unpaid as not block hours).
Training is where the £££ is in Ryanair, but not everyone is allowed (even when qualified) to become part of this "elite".
If you're not yet a Captain, my advice on career progression would certainly be to try and become SFI prior to your upgrade process, thus opening the door for future LTC/TRI/TRE route. Once Captain, you'll find out the hard way that usually ex-SFI's are used for LTC/TRI/TRE requests from the company, even if you have >4x the experience in hours and years in aviation.