Pohm 1,
I happen to agree with what, I think, you are implying. That number, $150,000, is often brought up as the Holy Grail of this industry, when ..in purely financial terms .. there are better deals out there. Please don't start another Quality of Life vs Income argument, that wasn't what I intended.
Besides, the main point in my post was to question Flungdung's assertion that someone already established in the offshore industry in another part of the world could walk into a North Sea position on that kind of income. I doubt that.