people envy skywest because its the top of the bottom of the barrel.

Republic is just as good, and they dont get nearly as much criticism. Probably a lot has to do with first year pay who knows.

Its all relative to where you were before anyway. I left skywest because i was working too hard for too little money. However a brand new CFI new hire at SKW in the same situation would be happy to be there working not as hard for more money. Similarly, thats why the Mesa's and the TSA's are happy at Skywest. You dont see hardly anyone going from RAH to SKW, or SKW to XJT, or any combination of those, because there would be no extra gain.