Boy that NC PowerPoint really spooked you eh? The next time you snuggle into the cockpit, rifle through the paper work and find the sheet of paper with City pairs at the top, all the suggested routings for your flight. The last line of each route are the operating costs in $dollars, the greatest of which by a wiiiiiide margin is always fuel. The next is time, which is inclusive of all the crew and other costs divided by the flight time. Then occasionally you have overflight costs for Cuba or Colombia etc.

Add all those up and get the operating costs for that particular flight. Now take what you think industry standard compensation would cost them additionally to what you make now per hour for both pilots, multiply that by your block time, and divide it by that total for the other costs. It’s nothing, it’s a rounding error.

Paying us the market rate for narrow body crews is NOT what is going to prevent the company from turning a profit.