Compensation is tied to supply and demand. How many people are willing to do the job for less than you are?

Unionization disrupts a true free labor market, which is why once you do have enough experience to move on to a major we get significantly more. We are united and can bargain collectively. Harder to do that at the ground floor, which is basically where regional pilots are.

You can complain all you want, but the facts are the facts.

If you don’t like it you can just leave! Lol

Seriously though, you can. The reason pay has gone up at the regional level is because demand has increased and to increase supply to an appropriate level pay has to be increased. It’s about what you cost to replace, not how valuable you are.

This also brings up the point that union dues don’t bring near as much value at this level as they do at the next. Valuable, just not as valuable.