BV, got to say, money wasn't the answer for me...!
I mean, within sensible limits. They could have offered to pay me £150-200k a year and I'd probably have considered it. But even an old-school FRI3 payment just isn't enough when the job starts to grind so much it's affecting your health.
There were a dozen things they could have done to encourage me to stay, but it seems no-one could be bothered; from my Flt Cdr, up through the station hierarchy, and similarly through the Manning machine as well.
I remember saying this to an ex-boss, whose reply was that the "dozen things they could do to make me stay are probably different from the next guy, and we can't do a dozen things for everyone." Thing is, I think that there'd probably be a lot of overlap there, and even doing one thing for some people might have been nice.
Everyone I know who's still in is speaking to people who've left about jobs and so on; and I mean every pilot I served with. 800 short now is probably looking pretty good compared to a few years down the line.