With the recent pilot`s shortage the market is improving and are the contract pilots who are somewhat pushing the salaries up.
Contracts have been better paid through out the latest years , specially in Asia and the pilotīs constant moving from one company to another made HRs pay you better in order to keep their pilots.
Since pilots are more and more keeping away from unions ,we are now in the era of supply and demand.
I think seniority is bad for us all in this moment.
My2cents