How are your pay & allowances calculated

[bursaryboy]

Hi

I am presently studing at Uni and am shortly to finish my final thesis. I am studing commerce and management. One area is salaries. A friend of mine is a pilot in NZ and I was amazed to find out what he was being paid.

What i require is to do comparisions on different industries pay scales, especially with regard to experience required to do the job.

Anyway my friend told me all he could but was only one source of which I need many. He told me of this site and told me to post a topic asking about salaries.

I need to know how salaries are calculated, are they consistant with other companies ( the reason I ask is because my friend works for "link" and he said even though you all work for Air New Zealand you all get different rates of pay. If this is true, is there a reason, what is it, and how are they calculated. Is it a formula? do Captain's get "x" amount more than first officers.

I know salaries are personal to some so I don't expect exact figures, but within groups of $10000.00 would be appreciated. ie $40000 to $50000.

Thank you

[I'm with stupid]

Bursary, as a general rule of thumb, FOs get 60% of what a captain gets.
Usually experience has nothing to do with pay ie. if you are good enough to do the job you get the same pay as the other guy regardless of wether or not he has 5000 more hours than you, the exception here is Vigin who have 3 different pay scales for FOs depending on experience levels.

The pay levels in Oz for flying same type A/C or similar size A/C are vastly different depending on who you are lucky enough/ unlucky enough to work for.

eg. Qantas 737 Captain, around 200k Virgin 737 Captain around 130k.
Ansett BAe146 captain ( when they were operating ) around 190k, Qantaslink 146 captain around 110k.

your mate may work for ANZ but he flys for a subsiduary, same as the examples above, but compare the Q/Link 146 salary to the QF 737 salary, not even close dispite the fact that the smaller 737 is not much bigger than the 146, the joys of flying for a subsiduary and not " mainline "



hope that helps your study.

[max rate]

Bursary,

were you amazed at how much, or how little your mate was earning?

[Northern Chique]

I know this is a reference to GA but there are two trains of thought.... the GA Award (osiris - a search on pprune should pull up all the refernces) and what really happens out there. Most GA companies dont pay anywhere near award, may pay award base but no penalties or rarely they get paid all entitlements.

For example .... GA company up in the North pays per flight only, and has located pilots out on communities where they are expected to fend for themselves on megre wages (AU$200-250 pw), the ones lucky enough to be in a metro centre are not paid full award in many cases AU$350-480 flying single or twin IFR full time).

A lucky few work for a couple of the major companies who pay award plus penalties but a sad fact is many GA pilots live below the poverty line.

[TeaCup]

It's not exactly for oz but has some links to this part of the world, try www.ppjn.com list wages for comapnies mainly in Europe.

Does anybody have an idear what Sunstate pays their boys and girls?? And any stabs in the dark for Aeropelican??

[O2]

TeaCup - Aero Duck boys are on pretty good money. First year Captains are on $56000 (increasing to approx $64000 after 9 years) and First Officers $38000 (increasing to approx $45000). This is after the collapse of Ansett. An extremely good and well paid job with a great lifestyle..