I was making $38000 per year when I started teaching 23 years ago. I had a huge student loan after 5 years of school. My friends who were board-flippers at a local mill made $45000 with no education. They used to laugh at my “career choice” But I stuck to it, payed into my pension and now am starting to see the wisdom of going to school, collectivizing our labour (our union the BCTF has to fight the Prov Govt for 15 yrs all the way to the Supreme Court) and paying into a pension. Yes it IS gold plated. But I had to fight and struggle for every penny. Yes my job is excellent. It’s also a lot of work dealing with people and their children. 
But your envy of teachers is totally misplaced. We’re just people who went to university and chose to work in a thankless profession. You had those same choices available to you. Be mad at yourself. Or direct your envy to the CEOs of the world. $90000 a year isn’t exactly a lot of money these days.