You've got to be kidding me, I've paid 90K or so, thus far to get myself trained up to their required standard..the airlines surely should count themselves lucky to not have to pay that..the way training costs are skyrocketing, this batch of recruits will be one of the last they get so easily...the future will lie in cadetships I reckon.
Plus the pay scales are all wrong...instructors should earn more..light turbine pilots should get more too, I mean who has the higher workload.
And anyone flying single pilot, light twin, IF charter etc should get a Knighthood.