For sure. As a 757 pilot gets paid more than a Navajo pilot, and a 747 gets paid more, so the A380 will be top earning. That's how it works everywhere else in the economy, and that is how it will work in aviation, like it or not. The airlines have largely not even started negotiating pay rates for the A380 yet. It may well come to A380s sitting around not being flown (as did the 747 initially in a big very British Airline) until rates are agreed. Big aeroplane, frightening responsibility.