It's also a completely normal salary for non-dev, non-IT roles in most of the US that aren't major HCoL cities, which are the roles I was referring too mostly where the cost tradeoff of AI vs. Hiring humans isn't as clear cut as the labs marketing departments want everyone to believe.

Even in the US, only about 23% of workers earn $100k/year or more.

According to the US BLS, the median income for "knowledge workers" is ~$65k-$72k/year.

People in SF, NYC, etc. live completely different lives from the rest of the country.