Considering the rates that some agencies are tossing about it has sunk so low that I'd send anyone to the 'white coat people' if they ever mentioned the 'dream'. You have to pass all the physco-babble exams and interviews these days to see if you are sane enough and of good character to be a pilot. You'd have to be mad to contemplate it in this climate.
A jet captain for €5500pm gross with accommodation thrown in, based in an expensive EU capital. Self-employed contractor status for 6 months. It's an insult AND a disgrace.

Indeed, would be interesting to know how much in general agencies get for each pilot. Maybe it is completely up to them to advertise the salary for a given position. The end result is crap saying the least for pilots, you don´t work for an airline even if you are a pilot and all kinds of people want their cut from the salary of the pilot. In any industry it is always best to buy something directly from the producer to avoid a higher price, in this case it is the same but the opposite. For the airline it is the same except this way they do not need to worry about taking any kind of responsibility for staff since they don´t employ them.

Big business labor nowadays.