lol Deez...

Multi hours are as important as the market...i was hired a year ago with unheard of low multi time because of a "crunch" ... a year later, and multi time is "nice to have" time....When i first looked to see what jobs were out there...the only thing that mattered (typically) was Multi time...AE would take our grades @ 500 hrs...but you better have a solid 100 multi, or no call (friend was told to get two hours when he had 98 multi)

On other notes, the higher paid friends of mine who graduated college with me started around 40k or so...promotions do come, but there's no guarantee, and while it's totally possible to make over 100k a year in some of their fields, there are far less people actually doing it in many majors than there are in aviation...while not the overwhelming majority of pilots, there are still a very fair share making nice six figure incomes.