Well according to the tax calculator, if you're married, with no kids, living in BC and don't claim any deductions other than the basic deduction and don't claim any RRSP contributions, you'd need to make $178,000 to take home $120,000. If you contribute 10% of your salary to RRSPs you only need to make $166,000 to take home $120,000. Both are pretty poor salaries for wide body captains. Not bad for the A320. EIther way, as you can see it's the company that's benefitting from the no tax environment not you. If Qatar had 40% tax they'd have to pay $200,000 to be competitive. You'd still get the same $120,000 though.Panama Jack wrote:complexintentions wrote:
I don't even know what you'd have to gross in Canada to save 10k/month after expenses. A fair bit, I'd guess.
I can tell you now, complexintentions, I did this calculation a few months ago and I figured the equivalent Gross Salary in Canada would be just a sliver under $200,000 CAD. I shared that with an astute friend and he disagreed; he figured the amount was higher than that.
Unlike you, though, I don't want to never fly an aircraft again. My ideal type is an aircraft without an electrical system, so I don't have to fly at night. When I want, where I want.
They work you really hard in the ME too. Time in the bunk doesn't count towards your weekly/monthly/yearly hour limits so that 90 hour month could really be 120 hours if you're only doing long haul flying. As for the short haul A320s. I've seen a couple of their rosters. Scary! I was fatigued just reading it. Here's one that somebody posted on PPRUNE a while ago:
Day 1. day off at out station in Europe.
Day 2. wake-up-call 2150 to fly back to Doha.
Day 3. Land DOH 0535, report again 2245 for Gulf turn-around (3h on gnd).
Day 4. Land DOH 0645, report again 0000 for Gulf turn-around (3h on gnd).
Day 5. Land DOH 0555, report again 1945 for Gulf turn-around ARR DOH 0000.
Day 6. report 1800 regional turn-around
Day 7. Land DOH 0015, report again 1345 for three-sectors (Gulf + layover),
Day 8. land at outstation 0120 (layover), wake-up-call 1500, land DOH 2230
Day 9. off
Day 10. off
Day 11. report 0650, four-sectors around the Gulf, land DOH 1700.
Day 12. report 2245 for Gulf turn-around (3h on gnd)
Day 13. land DOH 0645, report again 2345, two sectors for layover.
Day 14. land at outstation 0830 (layover)
Day 15. wake-up-call 0855, two sectors, land DOH 1910
Day 16. off
Day 17. report 2345, regional turn-around
Day 18. land DOH 0545, report again 1925, one sector for layover
Day 19. land at outstation 0055 (layover), wake-up-call 2300
Day 20. operate back to DOH followed by a Gulf turn-around, land DOH 1050
Day 21. off
Day 22. off
Day 23. ground school (ex. crm, security, dangerous goods)
Day 24. report 1045 Gulf turn-around plus regional turn-around, land DOH 2230.
Day 25. off
Day 26. off
Day 27. report 0700 one sector to Europe for 22h layover.
Day 28. wake-up-call 1030 fly to DOH plus Gulf turn-around, land DOH 2320.
Day 29. report 1230 one sector to Europe for 24h layover.
Day 30. wake-up-call 2200 to fly to Doha
Day 31. land DOH 0530.
All that being said, if I was in Canada and not at AC or WJ I would probably give them a go. There are much better overseas jobs out there though (more pay and less work). If you don't have the command experience QR is a good place to get it relatively quickly and move on. However if you're a 737 captain who isn't at WJ you could almost triple your take home pay elsewhere overseas.