One of the reasons I never considered SAS mainline, their pay structure is not very competitive.
However I am guessing there is more "other" costs for the employees in SAS mainland. Such as social security, pensions etc? Which when you add this up makes the Scandinavian based pilots more expensive. However that is clear TC's at SAS are not very good for new joiners, but I guess there must be some still on older contracts that were quite lucrative, or has it all been restructured?