No, you are not alone.
This whole time and motion study is nosense. While a 15 year Captain might be on 73k per year in 2004, we should all be earning that now. Many of us already have 15 years, we are using that hard won experience out there everyday, why wait until 2004?
To try isolate pay for more deck landings etc is not justifiable unless the ABZ based guys get a helicopter long haul allowance.
Sure it sounds stupid but so is increased pay for lots of short sectors.
It seems to me that the most sensible thing would be to set a proper and respectable salary level regardless of the actual task you perform.