heres just a thought:

Maybe the problem isn't the minimums being too low or high but the level of maturity and common sense required to differentiate between a job worth your while and spinning your wheels. Bartenders, store managers, cubicle slaves, baristas at starbucks will out earn a Colgan pilot for about three years. Eventually the Colgan pilot will make more but there are a lot of different ways to pay the bills that will earn you a lot more. Who do you want flying your airplane the person too stupid to realize that they are worth more or the guy who cant? Just saying