Rank: FO
Current a/c type: B737NG
Years in service: 1,5 years on present job
Type of airline (name if you’re brave!): GOL
Base country: Brazil
Hours per month (average): 55-65 nowadays due to economic downturn. On better days used to be 65-75.
Monthly salary (before tax): Brazil is crazily taxed (around 35% of gross salary)
Monthly salary (after tax): 7000-10000BRL (2000-3000USD on current exchange rate) depending on how many hours you fly per month.
Additional payments: 1500-2000BRL (400-600USD) on per diems tax free per month
Any benefits?: 30 paid leave days per year, 13th month salary, staff travel for employee/family on more than 30 airlines worldwide and year-end bonus if the airline performs well.
Happy (yes/no): Yes. It's a pretty good airline to work for (good training, good maintenance and safety standards, rosters got much better recently, nice crews and working environment) although there is room for improvement on many aspects. The problem is Brazil is in a terrible economic situation (so are all the airlines in the country) and quality of life is not good here (insane violence everywhere, terrible public services and corruption on all government departments). Also time for command upgrade is very long (at least 12 years nowadays for a new hire) and there is no pay increase based on time working for the company.