What expenses do pilots pay themselves usually
 

Do pilots pay their for their own hotels when staying away from base location?
Do pilots pay to stay at "Base" or stay for free? Pay a subsidised amount?
Or does "Base" Just mean where the airline has based them and where they are renting a house?

What kind of food allowance do they get etc
Rating renewals/ extra training costs etc
or other things I may not have though of.

Of course this varies from airline to airline but what is usually the case in europe in airlines such as Ryanair EasyJet Wizz etc

So my answers would represent my employer:
1. No
2. Discounted hotels
3. I'm commuting, so I will need to get a hotel, should I have a standby duty or an early checkin for a flight. Happens rarely though.
4. State per-diems table
5. Paid by my employer
6. Food (except breakfast) on layovers. Depending on destination, this could range anywhere from 5$/day to 45$/day. All deductible on the upcoming tax declaration though.

Hope that helped :ok:

I can't speak for Ryanair et al.
When I'm on a tour (usually 6 days/5 nights), the company pays for the hotel and breakfast. Hotel standards vary but generally they are good. Holiday Inns, Novotels, Marriotts etc, occasionally worse (due to availability) or better... We get €70/day whilst on tour. This covers the evening meal and other sundries like wifi if it's not for free. There is a small taxable element on that.
When I am at my Gateway airport (Luton) I have the option of going home or staying in the hotel. As my husband is usually on an opposite pattern (earlies v lates) I stay at the hotel with my colleagues. It's easier.
Company pays for airlines to and from the Gateway, airlines to the sim centre in the US, airline to ground recurrent training etc.
My medical is paid for by the company - or reimbursed.
I have a company supplied iPhone and iPad. Company pays the charges on them.
Uniforms are paid for by the company.
We were issued with Telex 850 head sets, most of us have bought our own decent ANR headsets.

I once bumped into a new Ryanair FO starting his ground course at EMA and he was sleeping in his car. I kid you not.

That must have been his own choice. RYR doesn't provide HOTAC during training but pays hotel allowance. The person must have chosen to save that on expense of human standards.

Do pilots pay their for their own hotels when staying away from base location?
- No

Do pilots pay to stay at "Base" or stay for free? Pay a subsidised amount?
- Pilots pay their own way at base. Company pays nothing. If they live far away some local hotels have special deals, or B&Bs.

Or does "Base" Just mean where the airline has based them and where they are renting a house?
- Yes.

What kind of food allowance do they get etc
- Paid for through salary. They might get a breakfast in the hotels if they're away from base.

Rating renewals/ extra training costs etc
- Airline pays

The answers are provided above. Cheers.

And they still find people to do that? There must be a lot desperate pilots after all.

Or with no respect for themselves

In the USA at a major.

I commute so I have a room I rent at my base ( I am mostly on reserve). Not a hardship since I’m 3 miles from the beach.

On trips I am paid per diem, and hotels are paid for. If I am sent TDY (or bid for TDY) I have a paid hotel for the month.

I have training paid for, including hotels and per diem, Type ratings are all paid for by the company. In fact, I haven’t paid for a rating since I got my commercial license 40 years ago.

Uniforms are paid for, but they are just ordinary.