Top reps at Caterpillar, Komatsu, and John Deere actually do make that much. I used to work in that industry.

Most people here are in tech and have no idea how heavily incentivized industrial sales is. Selling a fleet of D10 dozers to an excavation operation and selling a maintenance agreement is going to net caterpillar $1.7mm a dozer multiplied by number of dozers. They aren't paying someone 60k a year and free kombucha for managing those sorts of accounts.

These are the TOP folks though. I don't think most entry level college grads are going to making that any time size.