The pay will never increase because you need the master to hire you to become a master yourself. So they have so much power. You just have to suck it up when you're young and then capitalize on your master license later. That's one reason it won't easily change. The masters have the power and they are entrenched with it. Will the masters that sit on these state regulatory boards or however it works ever vote to decrease the requirements? No it would have to be a revolution or coup.