......but, I'm assuming you're a controller. You screw up, other people die, you loose your job and drive home all upset.
Pilot screws up, they, along with all on-board and perhaps people on the ground, can die, liability to the company can be astronomical, and so on.
You decide you've had enough or are having a problem, you get relief and take a break. Pilots can't hit the "freeze button" and smoke a Lucky when something isn't going right.
I, for one, would never minimize the responsibility and vital role controllers play in making the system operate safely. Best example I can think of recently is watching the NY Dept controller coordinate with LGA and TEB during Cactus 1549 incident. He didn't miss a beat and stayed calm and professional throughout while offering what assistance he could. Kudos!
Having said that, please don't minimize whatever you think it is pilots do. To be honest with you, pilots don't deserve significant pay for what they do on a vanilla day despite the required training and experience to even gain the position. Of course, you can't even fly that vanilla sortie without the credentials so guess they do after all.
To be quite honest, pilots deserve it for what they have to be able to do when the feces hits the fan. While that could happen today, tomorrow or maybe never in a given pilot's career, they have to be ready to perform often with very limited options or time in many occasions. Great example, Sully successfully performing his first attempt at ditching in the Hudson. Do you suppose he thought to himself as he was taxiing past the hold short to takeoff RWY 04,
"boy, wonder if I'll have that multiple bird strike, dual engine catastrophic compressor stall I've always practiced today?" 
No pilot is perfect, but when situations/emergencies occur, they too cannot afford critical mistakes and have to perform.
To the title of this thread, the answer is yes, any part 121 pilot should make WAY MORE than any TSA screener and at least EQUAL to pay based on years of service that any FAA controller makes.
So, what was your point again?
Lee