BA pilots offered 11% pay rise
 

Not much else to say really.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-strikes.html

Shall we ask how much the 320 FO based in LGW makes pa?!

You just can't win against the media

I get the feeling he has been saving all year for his holiday....poor chap I guess ****ty journalism is not bringing home the bacon

I don't think even the journalists at the Daily Mail would fall for that one!

Really? You reckon we earn more than $5M HKD per year? Dude, who are you?

But Paul......What is the point in comparing an expat remuneration package at CX against a non expat remuneration package at BA? It's chalk and cheese. How do the locally employed pilot remuneration figures compare? Surely that is more informative? I would be interested in how many pilots at CX employed on local contracts are receiving the equivalent of over £500,000 a year.

So in actual fact, 8 pilots (almost certainly management) earned more than your quoted GBP500,000.

Between these comments and your completely off the mark "Gay Bar " moral outrage it's almost like you have an axe to grind. If you're not careful those that don't already think you're full of the proverbial soon will.

'I really don't get the whole "expats deserve multiples of the money" argument'#

So basically you're arguing for no premium on expat remuneration? That's an illuminating idea but one I think would be hard to sell in any industry employing expats. The only reason expats are recruited is out of necessity and that, whether you like it or not, carries a premium.
I'm genuinely interested as to how many locally employed pilots at CX make £500000 or more per year. Paul, care to hazard a guess?

Paul, You're starting to sound a little unhinged. Who said anything about "us and them" or 'Colonialism' or 'skin color'? Clearly debating the facts makes you uncomfortable. You brought the subject up. How many locally employed pilots at CX make £500000 a year?

Paul, you reason like a 6 year old.

Paul, the median is most definitely not 2M HKD, you have been misinformed. Cathay management love giving money figures to the media to make us seem like the bad guys.

Seems everyone is missing the main point that Mole was trying to make: the fact that BA is willing to BEGIN with an opening offer of 11% over 3 years. How does that compare to our esteemed managements offer to the CX pilots? The joke only becomes less funny year after year. I'm sure it will get better soon though.... :rolleyes:

Given that UK salaries in general are rising at around 3.1% a year 11% over 3 years isn't exactly generous...................

The Hays Salary study shows
"For the third year in a row, the Hays Asia Salary Guide has reported prevalence in salary stagnation in Hong Kong, culminating in one in ten (11 per cent) employees experiencing no increase in their salaries over the last year. However, this rise is fractional and still below the Asia average of 15 per cent.

In addition, signalling salary inertia in Hong Kong was the rise in employers reporting conservative increases of up to three per cent. In 2018, 27 per cent of employers had intended salary raises by this marginal amount, but this figure leaps to 35 per cent in 2019."

which sounds quite similar to the UK

Looks like the Housing Allowance has been lumped with the salaries.