Money isn’t everything. Sure it’s something and the first pillar you have to compete on. But the money rpa can offer is pocket change if you’re comparing short and long term. Career progression is just as if not more important. Face it in todays world if you have 1000 turbine and close to 2500hrs you’re highly competitive for a legacy. That’s obtainable in a year at a lcc. Rpa can’t offer the flight hours to help fos get competitive. I took a sizeable pay cut initially to go to an lcc. Even with a second 3 month training period I already have 300 more hrs than my colleagues still at rpa. Some people don’t mind sitting around getting paid not to work. Some people rpa is their end goal because it can provide a comfortable life style with good qol. But a majority have goals of going to a legacy and if rpa can’t offer flight hours that’s going to delay someone by years which turns into hundreds of thousands in lost income