Ejector, you've asked the question yet again, and the answer is YES. As to the part concerning peanuts, well I guess that's relative. Ask some poor sod on way less than GA Award, and he'd probably tell you that a Dash-8 F/O salary equates to Christmas - a few times over!
Oh the sad and sorry lot of a pilot... Reminds me of someone on this bulletin board who used to tag their posts with a signature that cracked me up, either because it was funny or because of the pathetic irony of it - probably both......... "I'm too embarrassed to tell my mum I'm a pilot; she still thinks I play piano in a whorehouse."