I guess you would rather make the same salary the rest of your career - right? What a lame response. Pilots do aspire to earning more over their careers. Using a per-seat metric to gauge a salary scheme would work for me (salary greater when you fly more seats). Your way of thinking is way too old-school.......... Don't live in the past!
Au contraire, riker: I expect in the future, management will whittle away all those "productivity" based payments, to pay solely on the basis of experience/seniority, to achieve those higher margins!