Originally Posted by
Neptune Spear
Can we please stop with the comparisons with EK and The Majors? There is no comparison unless one likes to be treated like crap with veiled threats and substandard pay.
A Delta narrowbody Captain makes more than a Emirates widebody captain and works considerably less in far more humane conditions. Full stop and end of discussion. I know I have worked at both. How many of the posters here can say the same? Some I know but certainly not even close to half.
We can argue about T and Cs hourly rates days off anything at all but the big takeaway is at the end of each month I have more money in my pocket and I feel a whole helluva lot better than I did at EK. No question and it’s not even close.
This just makes me think when pilots try and defend Emirates what are they trying to defend and why the defense? There is no comparison!
Neptune
I’m a 10+ yr Capt on the tractor
Salary 43100
Flying /prod low avg 6000
Housing 16,100
Prov 6500
Per diem low avg 2000
Edu support for 2 kids 12,100 (I include this because I can use that to send them to any private boarding school in world). I do not need to live in a high Tax municipality in the US in order to get into a good school district
Medical/ dental essentially very low cost - both kids braces paid for by Co.
Transport to from work free.
So in total
85,800 = $23,315 essentially Tax free. I pay some but not much so you need to multiply that number by 1.2 to account for taxes and that’s being conservative.
That’s gross of 27,978 or $335,736pa
If you have a spouse that works you would also need to add the tax advantages to the overall picture as it would be an immediate hit to the family’s bottom line should her line of work be transferred to a taxed state. So if both parents working the tax advantages need to be taken into account - they are quite significant.
No one arguing about the treatment - it’s a pure disgrace here - but when wife and kids are happy and you add up the numbers it becomes less easy for some to justify the move while kids are thriving in school, sports & social.
The problem is the Co knows it - and it’s the handcuffs they use.
I am not for a minute suggesting anyone stay but let’s be objective when we are talking numbers.
I suspect Delta is higher than above but it’s not a no brainer even if you take away the Edu support it’s still $288,391 here - gross.
Above open to correction - and yes Dubai is expensive for staples.
Go ahead with you rates.