What continues to amaze me is how ill informed the public is regarding compensation for 1-?? year FO's. Time after time after time when the subject comes up with friends, coworkers (non aviation), and strangers how pilots are compensated and the work rules they must endure in order to make their way up the fish ladder, they turn pale white and wonder WFF!!?? Most still think a first year FO makes 75K a year! When I tell them its about 20k if you are lucky they are completely blown away and many wonder just how long this situation can continue until airlines run out of wide eyed wonders wanting to fly their air frames for peanuts. What a freaking house of cards!