I agree. If offshore paid crap, nobody would do it.
And if flight instruction paid £80,000 a year, loads of people would be going into it.
Like most things in life, it all comes down to money.
As I said the trouble with flight instruction there is always an "old timer" or a "part-timer" who doesn't need the money and just wants a hobby, or a young chap desperate for hours, and this depresses wages.