So Been here at Mesa since March. So far very impressed with the training and the company in general. Our ground instructor was CT. Awsome and very knolodagble instructor. Getting ready to start FPT training and sims are going to be toronto or YYV (crj crews) Any way we asked JO about the pay and yes he went in to the "capitan upgrade speach" Which is true. Alot quicker upgrade than most regionals but is more of an excuse to pay 1st year FOs our min wage. during training my checks are $712. I would make more on unemplyment this year than flying these jets. Recieved an Email from the company telling us to refer our friends to fly for mesa. Honestly if they want us to do this they need to offer a 1-3k bonous for each person that we reffer and gets hired paid to the pilot on first day of the reffereds indoc. Give us ways to "earn" more pay. Untill then I am not going to recomend mesa to friends or other pilots simply because the pay is way to low for the equipment we are flying. I am much more intrested in helping fixing this problem than prolonging it. So looks like i will be TDYing it as much as I can this year and going in to more debt. This company has great moral solid growth, great training. The only huge negative that I have seen so far is the pay. And it needs to be addressed. I talked to a union rep about this and I recieved the impression that not much is being done about it. It almost did not even sound like it was a concern to the union which is a little troubling to me.