Southbound.
Flying pay is for recruitment and retention, not the job in hand. If not, then the Sgts wouldn't be on the lower band either.
My point was that down-banding all WSOps to the non-tech band would be indefensible. How can a job become non-technical upon promotion. A major problem when the first job survey was completed was that there were an awful lot of MALMs and FSs in Sgts PICs due to the old time promotion system. Therefore, they didn't earn their money.