Vlad,
Presumably you also think a lot of airline pilots are overpaid and have an inflated estimate of their own worth too? I know a lot of very experienced jet crew who say they wouldn't like to try our job cause of how hard it can be, but they get paid a lot more than we do. And this also doesnt compare paritcularly well when you consider that lots of people want to be pilots and very few want to work in air traffic (the RB also doesnt understand this point very well, but thats another story).
And we are short of staff....
(and i shouldnt start sentences with 'and' !!)