Frontier - the job paid a lot differently back then. My father made the equivalent of $225,000 a year in 2007 dollars flying the right seat of a DC8 for a bankrupt cargo operation.
FedEx & UPS pay has not incresed, it has simply kept pace with inflation.
I would be happy to fly the panel the rest of my career for an inflation adjusted quarter of a million annually. I'm not blaming the "old" pilots for the pay cut, but hey, most of them made a lot more money for the same work seems they could understand the need to get as far up the pay scale as possible in the least amount of time.