Pretty much every contract I am seeing is $45-50 now. No one wants to go above $50, I guess that's enough these days...

Capitalism baby. People aren't willing to move to the middle of nowhere 8 months of the year (if not all year) for wages half that of their other mechanic counterparts. I'd wager there is hardly a single company in this industry paying AME's what they're worth right now. Especially after Covid. That...