Wizzair

[Skipping Classes]

Regarding the pay-rise...

The old self-employed contracts had 8% on top of everything extra to cover for the health and social security.

Basically, you were self-employed with Confair and had to arrange your own social security, taxes and health insurance, and for that you had 8% paid over your whole salary. Guys who are in the company long enough still have those 8%

Then Wizz Air decided to cancel the 8% basically breaching the contracts, and offered 30% increase of the sector pay, saying its a pay rise. Many pilots (new upgrades, sfo's and f/o) were just offered new contracts to sign or leave the company and guess what? 90% just signed

Nice mix of bluff and scare-tactics that worked.

Some lucky captains and management pilots basically those people company could not afford to loose still got their 8%

Now, simple calculation (the amounts don't matter):

Basic salary: 40k
Sector pay: 60 x 400 sectors = 24k
Total with 8% on top: 69.12k

New situation after 30% sector pay "increase":

Basic salary: 40k
Sector pay: 31.2k

Total: 71.2 == pay rise of 1.16%

Now if you don't fly 400 sectors a year, but lets say 200 for one reason or another (sick maybe?):

Situation 1: 40 + 60 * 200 + 8% = 56.16k
Situation 2: 40 + 78 * 200 = 55.6k

That's not a pay rise AT ALL! That's reducing fixed costs for Wizz Air


Wizz management must be laughing their asses off thinking how stupid their pilots are.


And you know what? They are right!