But even if he did get triple that (I believe it's been said he's on 24k at reading) its still a pay cut from the 90k he took home every week, regardless of how much we contributed, so he isn't tripling his wages.
He was on 90k a week, he was not looking at tripling that, he was looking at a pay cut. The more he could offer, the less of a pay cut he would have to take.