Thanks for the comments so far. The entry level pay is a major deterrent and is making me reconsider this move altogether. I'm probably like most people in the sense that i want to earn a good living and continually improve my place in life, so that some day i can retire and live comfortably. To leave my current employment get my commercial license and then be a CFI for a few years to build to 1,500 hours, is a major opportunity cost. Then, to go start at a regional at such low pay is an added poke in the eye and slap in the face. It seems to me the whole system needs to modernize and perhaps needs a wage revolution. But as long as there are willing candidates to go to the regionals and get hired, the wages will not change much IMO.