I have a friend who makes 70K at UPS for driving 15 trucks a day through a car wash and filling them with gas.
I have 2 buddies who are retired pilots...both 30 year employees. One, a captain, flew passengers and made 225k when he retired; the other flew boxes and envelopes and made 275k.
A guy that got out a few months ahead of me back in the early 90s had a job like that lined up out west. After a couple of months he came back to SC because of some bimbo he knew. After arrival he got busted on a DUI and possibly some other stuff and did some time.