I would suspect that many of the malcontents here, complaining about flight crew pay (including those that constantly complain about FR, yet don't work there...
) would like to be paid quite a bit more.
I would then ask...what makes you think that you are worth that extra pay you think you deserve?]
You are showing your lack of understanding of the world outside America (again).
A lot of people complain about FR not because they couldn't get a gig there, but because FR, along with Easyjet and the other LCC's that have since gone to the wall, have laid waste to the T&C's of the majority of airlines in Europe. So where once you joined an airline and were trained, now you have to pay for your type rating; whereas once it was normal to be fed and watered during the day, now many airlines make you pay for it; and so on. You are misunderstanding the basis of the discontent. If the LCC's had invested in their staff in the way that Southwest do, there would likely be little complaint at all. But instead, you have operations where, in the case of Ryanair, the principal will happily express his disdain and disregard of his pilots.
The second thing you seem to misunderstand, is that pilot salaries are determined by market forces, a concept essentially born in the USA. I also fly an increasingly rare jet, and I have found that I have been offered very lucrative contracts because there is a shortage of qualified crew. Why am I worth that salary? Because there isn't anyone else, and if you want me, you have to pay my rate. Of course, if I was flying something common like a 737 or A320, I would have virtually no leverage (and quite likely no job). But my point is that I do not have to justify my salary; the market does that for me. No airline pays more than it thinks it has to, and virtually all airlines in Europe adjust their T&Cs on the basis of supply and demand.
Any pilot who insists on an unrealistic salary that is out of step with his peers, will also be unemployed.