Fair point, employers will invariably offer the least they can get away with for the maximum experience, and given the thousands unemployed this will drive down to sub 50K SH Captains, no matter what one thinks of their own abilities, experience and dashing good looks the market will always pay the least it can get away with.
Airline analysts reckons next year plenty of flag carriers on the way out and LCC barely scraping by, hope things aren't so dire, not in the industry anymore however even my job isn't safe, we are all at risk I'm afraid.
The days of any idiot with a pulse and a freshly issued CPL/IR or fATPL getting RHS 737/A320 are long gone... never to return.