What I've never understood is why such a large proportion of a pilot's salary is related to the size of the aircraft. Sure - bigger aircraft, more people, bigger hole in the ground, but worth 4 times more salary for doing fundamentally the same job?
If you could redesign the whole industry pay structure from scratch wouldn't it make more sense to have the majority of your salary for "doing your job" - since all airline pilots pretty much do the same thing, just with different numbers of people sitting behind us? Then a smaller percentage on top of that towards aircraft size/complexity (which normally gets better/easier as they get bigger!), people onboard, and years in the industry/company...
Even more contentious would be to pay according to risk profile - old complicated turboprop going OCTA to marginal airstrips would get paid more than a 737 that slides from ILS to ILS...
RR