A former colleague made ~$200k a year basically doing storage zoning for SANs at a big NYC bank.
He basically had about 2-3 hours of work a day, mostly early morning, and studied, ended up with a masters degree and a nice resume filler — he had a nice title with a big name during the process.
He really had strong storage chops, they just didn’t use his talents. There are a lot of operations jobs like that in finance and government.