As this thread is about salary you can’t deny EK are way down the list. Compared to US yes EK need to improve it. Compared to EU land etc the pay is very good.
Industry as a whole hasn’t really improved (outside the US). Ryanair Captains in 2005 were paid almost the same as they are now. Terrible.
I mean at my old outfit we had an ex EK CC join us. She was EK for 10 years. She put a 70% deposit down on a property in the UK from everything she had saved while at EK.
Before anyone says no it wasn’t a mansion or a shoebox/garage etc, averaged size house average property price in the south of England.