I understand that, but you see the thing is I wouldn't want to open a business and become self employed, it just isn't my thing.
I know exactly what you mean, just pointing out that some surveys can give a misleading impression of where pilots might really be in the scheme of things. I was certainly aware I was losing ground to some of our local self employed a while back, but I'm not a doc ( I know not all of them are rolling in it either..) and I wouldn't fancy being a builder....
As for this industry I think the concern should be that CEOs are looking harder and harder at seniority pay and IMHO think there's going to be increasing pressure brought to bear for capping of payscales in the future, even in the legacy airlines...