I wouldn't expect anyone to be stupid enough to simply believe what they're told by a stranger on the Internet. Which is why I suggested getting in touch with current REX guys. And hey, if the figures I quoted above seem to work with what Rex are offering, go for it. All I can tell you is that I earn $45,000 more here as a 73 FO, than I did as a 7th year RJ CA in the US but end up with the same amount in my pocket at the end of the month. So, I'll I'm saying is going into it with your eyes open. We all know how miserable it can be in the right seat at a US regional and with all the furloughs that seem to be coming soon, it's going to be a lot worse.

That kind of assumption, although ultimately understandable, would be a mistake. It's a "Checking Culture" not a "Training Culture" and they'll expect you to know their regs and RT right out of the gate. At Rex you'll be operating OCTA and into a lot of uncontrolled airports, the procedures for which are very particular to Australia.

And no, no electronic glide slope, nor Chinese glide slope. Pure visual approach using PAPI's. My point, which every other former US pilot I've met down here agrees with, is that they have an uncanny knack of taking the easy and making it difficult and then taking the difficult and making it impossible. You cannot take anything simple that you do in the US and think it'll be the same here. It'll prove very frustrating. As one former USMC and UAL guy I know, who is now a CA with Voz on the 777 put it, flying domestically in Australia is a miserable experience.