Ship and boat captains and operators make a lot more than that.
At least in Alaska fisheries; there was a guy in a North Carolina town where I lived who made captain on a crab boat.
He would fly to Alaska for the season and sometimes pull in 200k-300k then spend the rest of the year at home with his kids.
That was 34 years ago.
Then again it’s not easy to make captain.
34 years ago, the quotas didn’t put a stranglehold on the industry, either. Nowadays, the quotas makes the boat list VERY exclusive.