My Operations Manager previously worked in High-Rise in NYC and he worked his way up to management in a very large company. So these numbers will be completely skewed as NYC is a different planet pretty much.
His guys were all union. I know he’s mentioned that the average was $95K/year and benefits ontop of that. This was probably 10-12 years ago at least.
When I first got into high rise here, I was on $13.50/hr back in 1999, by 2012 this was about $25/hr while the ground guys were on $22/hr. So it was about $3/hr more which is diddly squat, to where it became more profitable for the employee to not be on ropes as by that stage jobs were paid out a % so the more you got done the higher your hourly rate would be, on the ground its easy to earn more on a rope there is only so much you can do and so fast you can go with all the moving of set ups and exclusion zones and what not.