It depends on the type of job, ANSA. We are talking here about 757 positions, not a cheap manual labor cleaning the cars or houses of some rich sheik in Dubai or Sharjah. If you do live here in ME, you can't be telling me that pilots in Emirates, or Etihad or Air Arabia for example, who hold different passports get different pay scales based on where they come from. I don't think RAK is hiring a single group of nationality to man their fleet, which is the point you are trying to drive at. If they have plans of expanding then definitely it is going to be a multicultural environment just like the above mentioned outfits.
I understand your statements about economics, law of supply and demand, and whatever. But looking back to previous posts somebody here just quoted a basic salary of $8000 for captains. Isn't that good enough to entice a westerner or an aussie? Maybe it all boils down to work ethics, just maybe...