That excellent post was entered in November 2010. You don't need much mental agility to surmise that salaries might, worst case, have stayed the same while the cost of living has gone up 15%. Something similar, even if incorrect, would reflect at least an educated estimation.
The finishing school that Maun became was not designed for pilots to make money. It's been a sort of production line, hasn't it. Put a wurzel on the conveyor belt and out pops a pilot?
There've been one or two exceptions to that rule of course and Post #1 is an excellent example which doesn't merit asinine comments from those who will not research their endeavours sufficiently to merit consideration as anything other than the starting commodity on the aforementioned circular beltway.