Our hard minimums are 4,000 hours to apply...but competitive minimums are somewhere around 8,000 to 12,000 hours at the moment...and that's minimums. We're seeing a lot more experience than that.
Of course, you couldn't buy that experience nor would you be given more than an escort to the door if you tried.
The cost of training is nothing to a corporate department. A 45,000 dollar type rating isn't much in the face of hiring a good crew upon whom the passengers can depend. That said, the primary reason that many departments don't type applicants is that they want to hire an applicant who isn't only typed, but has proven experience in type.
One won't be buying that.