I‘d just like to add something to Max Border’s excellent Opinion Zone post on the climate gravy train below.  There is actually strong empirical evidence that climate scientists are very highly paid, and it comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The BLS conducts a National Compensation Survey every year to assess how much workers are paid.  Most valuable is the fact that it puts everything down to an hourly wage, so you can judge how well people are paid in professions that work long hours (like firefighters – 2556 hours a year) compared to profession that work fewer hours (teachers – 1408 hours a year).