No body should be paid a set minimum or maximum wage. You get what you are worth and what market forces dictate. Whilst there is a glut of wannabe airline pilots falling over themselves to do anything to fly, there will never be a high wage for instructors. One has to question the judgement of people who spend a small fortune getting themselves qualified to join an industry that they know before they start is over subscribed, and then to whinge about the poor pay and job opportunities, especially when those same people have moved heaven and earth themselves to get cheap hours building and cheap instruction themselves. Such hypocrisy is breathtaking. You do not have to instruct, especially if you are only doing it reluctantly. Go an get another job that pays well and come back to flying when there are some jobs and stop filling the pages of pprune wit the incessant carping about how hard done by you are.