At a non-union airline, no one other than the director of flight ops would know the actual number. At a union airline, a pilot getting fired is an automatic grievance, to at least review the circumstances to the firing. So the union has actual data that they provide, if any pilot asks. Of course, management doesn't want to advertise how many pilots get fired every year. You also want to think of it this way, how much does a pilot do, compared to a union pilot group, in order to stay in good graces of management? In other words, how much does management get away with in the form of pilot pushing because of the pilots' non-union status. When management can easily just tell pilots that they will now be strictly monitored by occ in compliance with new flight operating restrictions, it says a lot about whay else may be going on behind the scenes or just on a one on one basis between pilot and the chief pilots office. These things are kept very low key and very subtle by management for obvious reasons. As for pay, you certainly arent at the bottom but with the enormous success this airline has had for decades, you shouldn't be in the middle of the pack either. Lastly, there are other choices for west coast flying, even in the regional sector, such as Compass and Horizon.