and most, if not all salary surveys, use the median average and not the mean average to avoid the answer being skewed by a handful of abnormally high or abnormally low samples.
That figure sounds reasonable to me from my limited experience within the industry. (bear in mind they said "airline pilots" not "commercial pilots"). If anything I would have thought the median would have been a touch higher.
Dispite all the pi$$ing and moannig that goes on here, this still remains a very well paid and very great profession - I have had the 'luxury' (!) of having a 'real' profession previously and now I earn more, work less, and have great fun. In fact I'm still struggling to clasifiy anything I do as actual 'work' !