I do agree with what you said. I was thinking that at 70 hours per month plus the bonus divided by 12 would be me at 150,000 HKD per month.
I'm married so not sure what my tax rate would be.
Those expenses , well my buddy found a nice place for 20,000 per month. Eating out will kill you no doubt about it. But 4-5000 a month for utitltes? That's insane!!
So after it's all said and done I would be lucky to save 10,000 USD per month.
I figured it would be nice to be rated on both Airbus and Boeing as I am still in young 40s.
Compared to back home, Frontier airlines starts you at 39 usd per hour which means your paycheck would be about 2500 a month take home USD the first year. 3 year upgrade and even then captains are barely making it over 100,000 USD per year
So which is truly better?
Maybe I should go back to mainland. All the 737 guys making well north of 20 grand a month. But also I like an easy schedule too.
I don't need the money so badly. What I'm trying to say is I'm neither rick or poor.
But the issue (having spent 7 years there I know what I'm talking about) is the mainland bs one needs to deal with from ATC to smoking copilots to ridiculous micromanagement at times from the company.
Try flying everyday with a young guy in the jumpseat and it gets soooo tiring in a 737.
You mentioned 70 hours in 12 days??? Or maybe I didn't read that right but It seems the pilots get decent blocks of time off.
Heard they might get 330 one day