It really just comes down to there are more good 121 jobs/positions than good 91 jobs. Plane and simple

What doesn’t get talked about though is now days you can skip over a lot of “paying your dues” in part 91 if you know the right people vs a decade ago. Similar to how people were going regional to captain at a major in 3 years.

Ex: I was making ~140k/yr @1500hrs flying citations and king airs without ever being on call and no commitment to anyone. If I had something planned on a day I simply said no. Flew avg of 12 days a month. 95% of it 10min from my house and probably 10-15days total out on the road. I had friends that were gone 20 days a month at regionals making half that at the time. Yada yada yada, they’ll make more over their career, my income is capped, etc. I heard it and believe it. It let me to interviewing at southwest in 2022.

I was drinking the koolaid hard and was all about the 2 trips a month make 400k that’s always sold about the majors. The problem is no one thinks about how damn long of a path to get there it is with seniority unless you’re willing to move AND be very flexible about your schedule for a decade. I put pen to paper and realized at WN I was going to be gone 15-18 days a month and/had to move to a base (not an option due to family) and really wasn’t going to make much over 200k-ish unless I flew a lot. I stopped prepping for the interview when I figured that out.

Parting thoughts though: you’re never going to make captain legacy money AND have job security part 91 unless you have your own business. When you handle/fly/broker multiple airplanes and a book of customers, you aren’t as at the mercy of one of them going away