Second year is a bit better for since pay is $76.18, although 59.39*17*52 sums up to 52.5k so think distraction came into play for you.

For comparison,
at the mins for 8-4 week months and 4-5 week months
Yr 2 pay si
SO 67.3k
NB FO 101.2
WB FO 123.5

And, as bad as training pay\first year pay seems to us. It is better than almost every other airline out there. And the ones we pay less than, well, the pay curve accelerates in our favor quickly.

Could be better, but it could be a lot worse as well. Raising the salary rates will bump first year pay up and make the pain a bit more short lived.

Providing incentive for a newhire to bid HKG is the companies problem, not ours.