Good point. Compass pay will actually be less than stated since you will be giving a portion of it to union dues. At SkyWest, the money you make is the money you keep. No dues. Thank you for reminding everyone.
Now that I have a few more minutes to type, let me tell you why I find your remark above completely disgusting, and indicative of someone who really doesn't understand the big picture.
If you do not know the history of it, pilot unions in this industry formed for safety reasons out of necessity. If the airmail pilot a few days before you was going to be fired unless he tried to get the mail delivered, through some valley in low IFR with no instrument flight rules to speak of, and he crashed trying to get the job done, how completely absurd it would be to expect another pilot to try the same, in the same scenario. Yet that is what occurred. Thus, formed to create safety standards.
Over the years, of course additional issues arose. Job protections, working conditions not directly relating to saving one's own life but making the workplace safer, and so on.
Union dues have paid for so much over the years in the way of safety advances, in the form of pushing for the development of new pieces of technology such as TCAS to pushing for new regulations related to safety issues. MELs, rest regs, the list is long.
So the reason your comment above makes you look like a total d!ck is because any pilot group that does not contribute to this overall effort ought not to brag about it or be proud of it, but rather, appreciate the effort of others. I bet if a Skywest pilot had a great grandfather that flew airmail and DC-3s and Constellations back in the day, he'd be disappointed that his great grandson is not part of a union to help maintain what took so very long to build up.
I know a lot of Skywest pilots and none of them have the attitude you have regarding this issue. None of them smugly tout that the money they make is the money they keep, because they do realize that things could go the the other way at any time and when they're asked for a paycut there will not be a CBA to point to.
You ought to cease contributing to this thread, because it is now abundantly obvious that you have no interest in offering the pros/cons that you chastised others about not giving a few posts back. You have contributed some misinformation, slanted opinions, and clearly just don't "get it."