What if I told you I was poached out of my last job with a very nice package and incentive to come on over as a captain on a large cabin bizjet?
I would say great! Then ask you how you got the job. All I am saying is that this exact situation is an exception, not the rule.
However, in the US airline industry, it is ABSOLUTELY certain that you're going in as a first year FO making an insulting wage regardless of your experience.
If you take the job.
I think maybe I did not explain myself clearly enough. What I am saying is that in professional non-aviation jobs, you are not always going to get the same or better pay for moving to another job or losing the one you have. Ask any professional with a good bit of experience who was making great money and lost their job. Most of them are taking jobs way below their previous pay level if they can get a job at all.