I''m not omniscient but yes, it's the reason I think pilot wages are not in keeping with similar professions. You mention engineering as a select profession with more weed outs than others, agree, but that $60k starting salary is an average for college degree jobs, not just engineering and a few select jobs that happen to pay well. There are some jobs that start at less than $40k but not many. The average is $60k for a new recruit in the educated domestic workplace, and as you know new airline pilots are get less than half of that, and oversupply has to be the reason.