If there are plenty of other operators making the hop worth it, then the salary issue should be very easy to solve if a pair in the sacks of the pilots are present
What you have is to choose between is:
multiresistant bacterea in China, forget about going to sleep during cruise.
the risk of being beheaded in a country east of Egypt,
slavery in 60 degrees of heat in the Persian Gulf with a camera outside your house entrance. Most of them are not even recruiting anymore.
Fly during summer only för Norwegian and eat noodles in a caravan rest of the year.
Ryanair... I won't even get into that,
work for taxi-driver wages in Germany.