I'm still paying off school 13 years later, and I can tell you with $800/mo in student loan payments between me and my wife we would be wondering where our next meal is coming from at regional wages if that was my only job. I'm not saying it's right, wrong or indifferent, but the pay model kind of stinks.. Maybe back when 250 and the ink drying on your commercial was the hiring mins the pay made sense.

But now where you have to have 1500/ATP? That's like paying pizza delivery boy wages for a semi truck driver hauling dynamite.