Why would they raise the pay when they can get plenty of fresh meat out there from colleges and flight schools with no experience who won't ask questions, guaranteed show for class date and best of all they'll have a service life of multiple years because of the low flight time. I went to the interview because I'm looking to move on from my airline(not AW, tprop ops) and was shocked to find that I was the only guy with actual airline experience and when I talked to the sim instructor he basically said I was the only guy he'd seen in the last couple of interviews with any experience. Made me seem stupid for being there.