I'll say it again, I support good pay.
I guess that I am of the old group where half of my flying days were pre 9/11 and half were post 9/11. Pre 9/11 salaries were ever so slowly going up from an already not so good level, but attained nowhere near the type of incomes that are being advertised. Not even in the expat market; I was an expat for a short time and, why would Australians, Brits, Swiss, French, and so on, let alone Canadians, go expat if salaries were so high at home? Then 9/11 happened and you guessed it, everything took a nosedive, expat market included. And that was IF you could find a job. My particular canadian heavy jet operator closed up, making headline news, stuck around home for family related reasons, but was well aware of pay levels at the big name expat airlines that everyone tended to flock to. Good pay, sort of, but nowhere near fantastic. One well known Asian operator who had the reputation of paying the big bucks were now paying pretty average to low bucks. You know who I am referring to.
However, there are admittedly some choice jobs out there; I'm thinking about my good friend who works for American that does in fact make 300K as a 737 Captain, bear in mind though that it is after numerous decades and at the top of the pay scale, plus the pay raises are a recent event. Did not happen overnight.
If you make 300K anywhere in Canada, you are of a very select group, very very few people make that. Outside of aviation cockpits, even fewer come near to those types of incomes.
Nice to see that things are on a huge upswing though, wish I was born later LOL!