£12,000 per month? (If you're lucky) Is that really all they pay you to live in one of the most expensive and polluted cities on the planet, and/or work for that unhappy outfit? A quick read of 'fragrant harbour' suggests it may need to be more.
You're a foreigner in a foreign land. The fag end of colonialism. Reading in other places, it doesn't sound comfortable, or sustainable?
Of course in any case, a new joiner is highly unlikely to ever see those numbers before the company goes down the tubes. As is suggested elsewhere on pprune.
As a point of information, a significant number of UK pilots are non UK taxpayers! Your figures do not compare favourably with them. Others, like me, PREFER, for family reasons, to be UK taxpayers. No pockets in shrouds etc.
Last edited by 4468; 15th Jan 2017 at 00:29.