My God fellas! Remember the bottom line is what your prepared to accept. How anyone can imagine less than £40K per year for jockying a 737 about the sky is good pay, utterly astounds me. Professional aviation is a hard task master. It impinges on your 'lifestyle' more intrusively than most other jobs of an equivalent pay bracket.
It always amazes me that flight crew are prepared to sell their talents so bloody cheaply. In any other walk of life with the same levels of intelligence and committment to the job you'd be away flying (forgive the pun) to the stars. In aviation your constantly at the mercy of the instant impact of changes in global ecomomy, there is no cushioning in aviation. You are suject to the whimful direction of, at best, cavalier management and just when it seems that you might get through to pensionable age, the company stalls, the pension scheme stalls and your back where you started, just another qualified 'jock' with little else to sell to a future employer.
Get off your bums and like Oliver Twist ask for more!!