Now your talking my language, one pay scale for all. Boy, talk about an ideal world eh? For the record. i'd love to be earning $50,000 a month!!!
Listen i don't want you to think i am knocking your personnal acheivements or anything like that, it's just that i have been an instructor (like the vast majority of us) and trained some very unlikely candidates who now have successful careers, in fact i know two ex cabin crew members who are pilots now with UK based airlines.
I fly because i didn't do very well at school, and it is one of the few jobs where you don't need a degree. My first job after instructing was on a 757 earning a decent whack.Result!! Fair or not, i ain't complaining, but i could have just as easily been cabin crew, just chose differently.