The question should be asked:-
'What do you want your pilot to do?
Answers.
1. Get me/us from here to there with the utmost safety
2. If anything goes not according to plan then handle the
situation in all respects to knowledge and training.
3. Be a clairvoyant, anticipate my needs even if I havent thought
of them yet.
4. Be not only a first class aviator/ meteorologist/ firstaider/
engineer/ caterer, but also understand every business
strategy and financial plot.
5. Be able to adjust without complaint to every change in the
schedule, in fact have planned ahead for the unknown.
6. Be willing to wait an unknown amount of time and or turn up
well ahead of time.
7. Be constantly updating and retraining.
8. Be knowledgeable in aviation law and the unfair practices of
lawyers and judges.
9. And many other abilities, such as accepting a salary less than
ones worth.
10. It is the market that determins salary rates, so too many
pilots spoil the broth.
To sum up.
Pilots are expected to be all things to all people, to carry the can when things don't go to plan and to save lives in such circumstances. Flying is inherantly risky. HSE will eventually close aviation down as unsafe due to duty of care.
So the salary should be certainly more than lawyers, about on par with doctors. But on the other hand perhaps as drivers should get bus drivers salaries.
Basically I feel that Airline pilots get too much and the rest of the market too little.