i agree that police officers deserve more, teachers deserve more, and pilots even deserve more. One problem that pilots will have is public support for high wages, as the majority of the public things we all make six figures anyway, and they also say that airplanes are easy to fly now....we've got "computers and such, and what do we actually do? take off, and land?" pretty common thought from the people in the back, akwardly enough, they're often right.
But we all know that there are days when we earn every dime and then some for the job we do.