There's actually a lot of money in HTML5 games right now. I posted a detailed rundown of my earnings from games on reddit a while ago:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/xc4rs/anonymous_ind...
These are all fairly simple games. Nothing fancy.
My main job is still maintaining and selling my game engine ( http://impactjs.com/ ) - where I can't complain about money either.