Since I was a service engineer for 47 years, I find it kind of sad that a good bike mechanics pay is so low.
I worked for a large computer corp, and you will probably have your eye teeth fall out but if a computer or machine was not on contract my per call charge was $246 per hour with a two hour minimum. And the fact was in many cases the work or adjustment that I did was really no different that what a good bike mechanic might do on a bike.
Another thing that I find just wrong is the fact that the price of a high end bike is so high, and yet the bike mechanics pay that works on them is so low. Minimum wage pay to work on an 8 to 10 thousand dollar bike just doesnt seem right.