If you pay peanuts then you will get monkeys.... It applies in most fields except aviation..
Professional pride and love of flying is the reason why most of us fly. Money cannot be sooo important as a good professionally executed flight. The only problem is, many of the management have got the idea that pilots are the only suckers who will do their job for peanuts. They feel if we get a flight than they are doing us a favour by increasing our experience for free. It is a very careful balance when it is felt that a pilot is experienced enough and can be paid a huge salary. The management has pushed this view to a ridiculous extent and now it is generally viewed that if a person is a senior TRI or TRE he should be considered a "special person". Most of the damage is sadly done by some pilots in order to push their own importance at the cost of the profession as a whole.
Well the time has come that such thought processes need a tad bit of reviewing- to maintain the professional flight standards and not allow the management to interfere with the professional requirements. But some airlines which have gradually allowed operational control shift out of the hands of the pilots and into the hands of "businessman" and marketing are soon going to see things backfire. The writing is on the wall..
The paycuts which many airline pilots have experienced is a manifestation of the changes in the thinking in aviation circles.
Once again this a personal opinion...