First of all, 12435 is actually asking for figures about pilots working in NA. Now I presume that this means North America (as opposed to Not Available).
I worked for a (fairly notorious) Part 121 carrier based at JFK as a DC-10 check airman and I was paid $68 per block hour in the 1980s (with a 50-hour guaranteed month).
In different money, my salary whilst training on the DC-10 with Fred Laker was £4500 pa. I can well remember coming out of the hotel in Bangor, Maine and seeing the photographs on the front page of the newspapers of the AA DC-10 disaster at ORD (1979) and wondering if I had made a very bad career move!
As it worked out, things worked out OK and I ended up being paid £7500 pa as a fully qualified DC-10 F/O.
You could in no way have bought a house for even my annual salary. If my memory serves me right, a 3-bedroomed house in Sussex at that time cost at least 4 times my annual salary.