I'm a 3.5 year F/O in EK (just about to do my upgrade) and I take the company allowance which finances my apartment. My current take home pay every month is 13623AUD and that does not include this years bonus. For me to earn that kind of money back in Oz I would have to gross well over 212000AUD. The same argument exists and will always exist and that is...."you live in dubai, and not Australia". It's not for everyone, but it is what you make of it. Everyone has differen't circumstances. My roster next month has 4 trips with 16 days off in total. Yes I'm doing 92 hours/month and I don't know how long I can do it for, but it has just reinforced my motives to save money make a few wise investments and get the hell out of flying before I'm 50.

A pilot and " wise investments".....an oxymoron if ever there was one!:confused:

Base+Utilities+Flight pay.

It actually sounds about right. If I took the Utilities allowence, as a TRI I'd clear about 70 000dhs (including Provident fund)= 22k AUD.

You'd need to be earning high 300Ks to net that in Aus.

135,000HKD/month ( 19,500AUD ) , + 13th month, 15% gratuity almost covers tax, and guess what...........IT IS NOT WORTH IT. ( Oh, and I am a lowly f/o )

Only joking, it's great, I love it, all you guys/gals in Oz should come to HK or go to Dubai and see how green the grass is for yourself :ouch:

Hang on guys.................

I'm sure my dick is bigger than yours!!!!

The grass is really green in my backyard and I love it! And I live in Brissy!
haha!
Brisbane Born and loving it!

Hong kong fooey
So you are saying you take home 19.5k AUD a month as a lowly F/O?
Even so I still would not take that living in that hole...

I bet you dont though just love making stories if someone took 20k a month as an F/O it would be a revelation. So you get 240k AUD take home as an F/O? haha I dont think so...

Ill keep my green grass in Brisbane mate! and its great!

Angle of Attack
I don’t like talking pay but Fooey never said take-home pay. Having said that though, assuming he is using his housing allowance to pay off an apartment in HK, then his numbers are spot on.
Regarding living in HK? Horses for courses. It may not be your cup of tea but some of us love the place. Just as I couldn't think of living in the desert, some people love the place.
Good for you. That is you choice and I don't have a problem with that.

Brisbane is a Bogan's paradise. Devoid of culture. Go on. Name a decent restaurant. Or even a decent suburb.

Bronzed Bogans! :}

I would have to agree with that. I lived there for a year and hated it. Recently, 140,000 people walked over the new bridge near the airport. Huge numbers but I was not surprised as there is nothing else to do there on the weekend except walk around Westfields like everyone else.

Nice suburb, mmm, Redcliffe was nice but didn't get to live there!

All this talk of who earns what, I earn more blah blah blah....

Your salary is a bit like your Dick...

It's not what you've got, but what you do with it that counts!

.... It just makes life easier if you start out with more! :ok:

Seriously engage the missus on this one. Have met a couple of blokes who have had the other half fly back in a flood of tears to their mothers. Both relationships split up sadly. It is a big ask for a family, especially the female side, sure the shopping is fun for about a minute, then reality sets in, the heat, the customs regarding women, and pure homesickness just might become a problem, then again other women might enjoy the challange. One thing to check on is unless you speak the lingo, jobs are not so easy to find, so if your otherhalf wants to work???

Yes teresa green. And the scenario of how you & the missus feel when a mid twenties, Arab boy, arrives in a Ferrari to take out your underaged daughter.

evyjet

That's a good point. I know relatively highly paid pilots whose unchecked lifestyles have them with nothing.

But being abroad should open an innumerable number of wealth creating opportunities as opposed to being PAYE Australia.

hongkongfooey's numbers are correct, plus annual travel fund and 'profit' share but minus 16% tax...

1. McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, KFC
2. Inala, Darra, Woodridge, Beenleigh

:E

Redcliffe? Cripes - where did you live?

Thats not fair Metro Man, they are in a state of mourning after one of their own just got shafted, bigtime, give em a break!

That's just plain unfair as we all know that Redcliffe = Inala by the sea. It's all very cultural though I'm sure.

You tell her she isn't seeing him again, end of story. :hmm:

Could just as easily happen in Sydney too...the next John Ibrahim.