North Sea Pilot Salaries

[Genghis the Engineer]

If there's a thread with this in already - apologies, I looked hard, but couldn't find the information.

Helping out with a project, I'm just trying to find a referenceable source of information about F/O and Captain salaries on the north sea.

Can anybody point me at anything?

Thanks,

G

[helicrazi]

I dont think its written down anywhere in the public domain, that might cause a war :E

[Hummingfrog]

When I was made redundant last year I was on more than enough:E but now I am a pensioner I have to shop in LIDLs:{

HF

[grumpytroll]

I've always heard it's around $150-200K :ok:

Cheers!

[darrenphughes]

Is it some sort of closely guarded secret or something?

I take it there's no website like www.helicoptersalaries.com (http://www.helicoptersalaries.com/) that list each company's pay scale.

BTW the numbers on that site above are a few years old.

[SFIM]

I don't think it's classified, on the UK side I think one of the companies is

P2 About £41-66k
P1 about £79-103k

Training allowances on top, I think it should be more!

[eastsideabz]

-£10k to the above at another :{

[Wizzard]

SFIM has it about right

Training allowance £10k give or take

[Swinging Rotor]

Training bond for 5 years / 80 000€ (AW139)

All salaries before tax:

Entry salary first officer: 5000€
Entry salary senior first officer (after about 1-2 years): 6400€
Entry salary captain (after about 5 years): 8600€
Exit salary captain: 12 000€ (20+ years in the biz)

Tax in the Netherlands is about 40% over the whole salary, roughly speaking. Google it if you want it exact.

Add to this a vacation salary of about 75% of a months salary per year.

For expats a special tax applies which is about 25% instead of 40%. Some things regarding the pension is slightly less favourable with this option.

A basic pension on top of the salary is also saved via the government/union, roughly 10% of your netto salary. This should be taken into consideration if comparing to a "tax free - pension free salary".

I didnt calculate this to the cent so consider it a rough estimate.

The 3 salaries are from the 2012 CLA though, so they are solid and no secret.

Generally no way to get a direct entry captain position, best you can hope for is SFO. Seniority list applies.

[Jet Ranger]

Great post.:ok::ok::ok:
The best!

[helimutt]

Sometimes wish i'd never left, but this beats flying for a living! :E

[Rotatohead]

@Swinging Rotor:
This is for a 6 on / 6 off schedule?
Thx!

[kmax]

Nope You have to reside max 1 hour from Den Helder Airport.
No long rotations

[212man]

Plenty of People living near Rotterdam or Friesland, up to 2 hours away

That must work well with fatigue management!

[alpenjunge]

Thanks Swinging Rotor for the detailed information.

Is the payscale at CHC Norway similar to the one in the Netherlands? And what are Bristow and Dancopter offering their pilots (especially first officer/ senior first officer)?

A.

[SFIM]

anecdotal evidence tells me that a newish captain at Dancopter gets about the same as an SFO on the UK side.

[Swinging Rotor]

At the moment DanCopter has no contracts in the Netherlands.

If I remember correctly the salaries are about the same. Slightly higher with CHC than DanCopter if you take the pension and the vacation money into the picture.

However Dancopter work 14/14 and because of that does about 20 working days less per year. Bristow has some changes in their roster coming up that will put them somewhere between CHC and DanCopter in working days.

But at the bottom line, no major differences apart from lifestyle (commuting or living in-country)

I would be interested in seeing the numbers from CHC Norway and Bristow Norway too ... and CHC UK

[kmax]

I thought everyone was living together in Schagen :O :\

[helimutt]

I have the latest Bristow salary scale and CHC salary scale for UK.

Can't access it right now but as soon as I can i'll post it up.

[ropelleri]

Anybody know anything about NHV's pay?
Not just NorthSea but the rest as well?

[MyTarget]

Firstly shouldn't you ask whats the company like to work for! But anyway in comparison to other touring jobs their pay is very competative.

[Camp Freddie]

According to AOL UK, the 10 best paid jobs are as follows.
I have no idea where the data comes from and I know it includes plank drivers, but it is nice to be no.3
I bet however there are not many onshore heli pilots who earn more than £71,555 !


1.Directors and chief executives of major organisations £112,157
2.Corporate managers and senior officials £77,679
3.Pilots and flight engineers £71,555
4.Medical practitioners £69,952
5.Police officers (inspectors and above) £58,746
6.Air traffic controllers £55,352
7.Brokers £54,924
8.Financial managers and chartered secretaries £53,944
9.Managers in mining and energy £53,741
10.Protective service officers £49,394

[Nf stable]

-£10k to the above at another http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/boohoo.gif


From what I'm hearing with the latest bunch of new recruits on the East side, it's more like £15 less. Ouch

[2papabravo]

It actually stands at £17k less. I have friends who have just joined both east side and west side operators. Very disappointing.

[Camp Freddie]

It actually stands at £17k less. I have friends who have just joined both east side and west side operators. Very disappointing.

So are you saying that some new starts are being taken on at £24k or are you saying something else?

[2papabravo]

£33K vs £50K

[Epiphany]

Be aware that retirement age with Bristow is 58 so make sure that your bank loan is paid off before then.

[212man]

Be aware that retirement age with Bristow is 58 so make sure that your bank loan is paid off before then.

I may be wrong, but I think that went out the window a few years ago (soon after the pension scheme underwent a Chanter/Blake rework:ugh::ugh::ugh:)

[Epiphany]

Well the contrcat that I signed said 58. I was always told that this allowed Bristow to terminate your services at that point if they wanted to replace you with a less expensive, younger, replacement or allow you to continue if it suited them.

[Colibri49]

In 2006 the UK parliament enacted a law against age discrimination. This law generally supersedes contractual retirement ages, hence Bristow UK now has captains in their sixties working towards the international age limit of 65 for public transport flights.

Additionally Bristow UK has retired captains flying as contract day-rate copilots. A couple of these could have continued as permanent full-time captains, but chose not to.

The table above showing salaries for various occupations seems somewhat out of date.