Originally Posted by
embraer
Part 135 as 4castclr mentioned pays better. Lider is the biggest as far as I know and probably pays the best. I know airlines down there are now officially in a wage war with the executive aviation sector in an attempt to attract more pilots to the 121 world.
But 5,000 to 8,000 a month is really good down there..especially if you have no kids. Living in Sao Paulo it would be borderline...but in any other city R$ 8,000 puts you in the upper middle class with no kids. And of course that is just starting pay. It goes up from there.
I know for a fact that TAM captains are bringing in over R$ 20,000 a month. That will gMet you somewhere
First officer
Azul pay 3500 reais to 5000 reais after tax
Gol 5000 reais to 7000 reais after tax
Tam 6000 to 8000 after tax
Captain
Azul 7000 reais to 9500 reais after tax
Gol 10000reais to 13000
Tam 11000 to 14000.
Gol and Tam are Sao Paulo home based (no beach,no bikinis hehe)
AZul is Campinas Home base
You have 8 days off monthly usually.
Per diem is about 1200 reais month
Tax on salary is about 35% month
There is no house allowance or food card or healthcare or bus card !
There is no medic insurance (GOL and TAM)
1,75 $real is about 1,00 us$
A standar car like Honda Civic cost about 80.000 $reais
An apartment with 500 sq ft on a good Sao Paulo neighborhood between 700.000 1.200.000 reais.
Scholl for Kids : learning just Portuguese between 1000reais and 1500 reais each kid, 2 languages includding english minimum 2500 reais each kid.
Fuel Gas: 11 reais us galon
public transportation is a caos
Car traffic i is heavy ,on rush hour you take 2 hours to run 40 km betewenn Sao Paulo 2 major airports.
BigMac 10 reais
IPAD (wifi 64gb) 2000 reais