This is what people fail to understand here. There is no "CBA" in Europe. The guys making 250k/year are all in old legacy contracts when you still could make money in Europe. The later hires are on different contracts making much less. The "contracts" in Europe have a ton of carveouts, different fleet rules etc.
The starting salary at Finnair, one of the European "legacy" airlines, is around €36k/year including all extras (similar to counting per diem as part of salary). Top range is around €120k/year for senior captains.
For the "what's your source" folks, https://company.finnair.com/fi/toihi...nelentajat/q-a question #33.

Air France, Lufthansa and other traditionally well paying companies don't hire directly any more to the well paying fleets. So whatever pilots are making there now isn't applicable to a new hire.