I was contacted recently by Horizon Air. $5,000 signing bonus and the contractual FO starting pay. Even as much as I considered it as a way to get current and return to flying, there is just no way I can live on US $2,300 per month! (gross, before taxes) Their solution to the contractual slave-labor wage is the bonus program. While I appreciate the interest, that bonus would have to be more like $25,000 to make any sense at all for me. Perhaps that might happen in the future, but they are not yet that desperate!