Originally Posted by
fassy
Sorry, I can't believe that...
According to SK the starting salary for pilots are:
DKK: 27 730
SEK: 28 395
NOK: 29 940
Didn't find official numbers for FAs but a couple of average reports on cabin crew salaries at SK show up with up to 150DKK/hour so we are talking about perhaps 25k DKK. Probably there are some long haul pursers which earn 40k but I would guess the large majority don't make much money.
Or another quick googling turned out: "Compententive salary after test period (6months) 19.223,- Kroner (aprox 2600 Eur / 3750 Usd. 150 hours per month (130 kroner/hour, 25 usd/hour)" (from
http://www.gayviator.com/forum/index.php?topic=2300.0, hmmm gayviator? Anyway...)
Reminds me about the reports in Germany that a LH Pilot earns 250k a year... while the pilots i know just can wonder who came up with those numbers as they earn less than half of it - even as long haul crew
I know some relatively recently hired SK Danish and Swedish cabin crew and their bank accounts are not half as well padded as their same-age fellow citizens working for EK and QR in the same roles.
If you look at where and how the relatively newly-hired/youngest SK cabin crew members live, they certainly don't seem to be banking bank way more than their school friends. The older ones are more comfortable, but their job prospects (and income growth prospects) beyond their current employer are anything but great.
If you wanted me to sign up to be an employee of a sinking firm in an industry where job and income growth opportunities aren't all that great going forward, you would have to pay me a substantial premium or suffer me a large performance bonus regardless of job grade/level.