the guy who comes to fix my dishwasher gets paid $100 for working one hour.
I'll caution you not to conflate that with "the person who works at the office gets paid $Y for working one hour."
If your dishwasher guy is self-employed, he pays for wear and tear on his vehicle, licensing, continuing education, supplies and tools, advertising, insurance, employer-borne payroll taxes, and other "overhead" out of that $100 - and got paid nothing for the time it took to drive to and from your house. If he's someone else's employee, he doesn't have the overhead, but also didn't get paid anything like $100, even if that's what you paid to his employer. Rule of thumb in the service industry I'm most familiar with is that the employee's gross wage is 1/3 of their hourly billing rate, so a tech billed at $100 an hour might have a wage of $30 an hour (or $60k a year).
Spending money on an expensive hobby is more an issue of limiting outgo in other areas than it is in having significant income.
