This is a good trend and you’re right.
Probably 10 years ago at least, an auto mechanic friend of mine said that someone good in the trades can earn 6 figures with no problem there’s the much of a shortage of skilled tradesmen.
Back in the 80's there was a guy in my high school that was a known pot-smoker and a lot of people wrote him off as a dead-ender. He was in our vo-tech program for autotrades, graduated and seemed to disappear for a few years, until one day he rode back into town in his De Tomas Pantera. Seems he had somehow worked his way into being a mechanic for some Hollywood firm that provided high end vehicles for movies and TV shows.
I own a Dodge pickup. Bought it new at the local dealership in 2017. All service by them. Scheduled an oil change a few months back, and was told it’d be almost a month out. ‘Wow! You guys are busy!’ ‘Not so much that; we don’t have enough technicians. The ones we find show up for a couple days, then disappear. Nobody applies for our openings. We’re looking for a certified tech right now, and offering a $5K signing bonus, with another $25K at one year. No takers.’ Unbelievable to me, a tail-end boomer who’s worked since he was nine. WTH?