In my humble opinion the cabin crew, the flight crew and the engineers all do a spectacular job ():-)
However, if you want a sobering comparison:
Cost of training pilot = £50K/£60K
Cost of training ATCO = £330K
Our work load doesn't go down, it goes up (dramatically every year)! So when you are all either flying, or looking after people down the back, spare a thought for the air traffic controllers who are prematurely going grey and are giving their all to make sure you get from A to B safely ():-)
If you want to see underpaid then go to LATCC, TC or LHR