Hi!
FO pay is about the same as very good regional Capt pay, plus a lot of retirement money (at Emirates...Qatar has NO retirement).
Capt pay is on par with the highest Capt pay in the US (for comparable equipment), with more company money to retirement than in the US.
ALL pilots fly about the same amount, and have about the same amount of days off (seniority doesn't matter overseas anwhere near as much as in the US).
To learn more, go to pprune.org, and take it with a grain of salt! I know guys at both EK and QR who like their jobs...plus it is IMPOSSIBLE for EVERY airline to be the worst possible airline job in the world!!! ONLY ONE can be the WORST...and I think that it's probably Mesa, which is so far removed from a job like KAL/Cathay/EK/QR that they are almost in different universes. Most of the ppruners have never had ANY experience ANYTHING like working at a US regional airline!!!
cliff
LFW