My feelings are that remuneration should be linked to the level of "risk management" - ie in terms of numbers of lives involved and cost of the hardware. For quite a few years now I have been of the opinion that, in general, pay for aircrew has been falling behind.
That said I also think that pilots are paid for their skill and expertise rather than the "lifestyle" and the number of hours they may have to work.
Years ago John Smith (the labour MP who didn't make it to PM because of his early death) said that Britain had become "the sweat shop of Europe".
Without naming names one is tempted to say that certain companies in aviation have become the "sweat shop of the airline industry".