Opsbod
I still maintain the airport location will play a major part in what salaries are paid.
LTN had a major salary shake-up when the 'orange cans' appeared on the scene and they decided to operate thier own ops dept.
To be able to entice staff there had to be something to entice them with, in this case it was money. The other base operators lost alot of staff to Tango-Land. It left them with little option other then to match the salaries. Now all said & buried this turned out to be a good thing for staff at LTN, salary increases all round.
Maybe it's about time for another operator to start-up, entice the staff and we can all have another pay raise!