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Airlinepilotcentral has bad info on EK. When you add up all the pay including housing allowances it's more like 19-20kmonth for a CA with about 5-7 years on property. If you wanted to convert that to a US style contract it would be roughly $225/hour. Not stellar but not too bad either. EK pilots also get some perks like driver to and from work, good hotels, free medical, travel benefits, etc. The area where EK comes up short in a big way is schedule. The schedules at EK are brutal. The pay is close but the work load is significantly higher.