ZK-NSN I guess you are another P$ssed off Kiwi turbo-prop driver.....!!!!
If you don't like the conditions at J* don't apply
keep flying your BN2, Dash-8
or whatever A/C you are flying around
Low cost companies will never pay the "huge salaries" you are dreaming.
The money overseas is better because the "quality of life" isn't good. That even is true for the Middle East. Now it's a personal choice: Money OR quality of life.
If you want the "big bucks", then leave NZ and have a ****ty life somewhere like others