The linemans sa;ary is grossly under reported. They are generally IBEW unionized and they receive very high pay when they work overtime during stormy weather.
Als thiose who have their master ticket ( red ticket) , and who work on high tension lines with high transmission towers earn very high wages, a lot more than is reported.
Being a lineman is one of the best jobs on this list.
A friend signed her lazy 21 year old son up for training to be a lineman for TVA about 6 years ago. The cost was $15,000 for 4 months of training. There was a guaranteed job starting at $65,000 for all who finished the course. Lazy boy went for two weeks, and the parents were out the money.
The numbers from broadcast engineers and the like listed has to be for the bigger markets.
I worked in a public television station having just a diploma in TV and made more than most of the regular people at the commercial stations who were media arts and the like.
Not that I made any great sum. Early 00s, about 24k. The news people I knew anything of even close to what I was, well below.
IF you can handle the heights, I understand that being a Transmission lineman is even higher paying. Of course you need to be okay with dangling from a helicopter hundreds of feet off the ground.
My cousin was a IBEW “storm chaser.” He retired at age 60 and is now living the good life at the Villages.