Just out of curiousity, I compared wages of several professions related to animation.Within San Francisco...(Come on, I know you want to know also)

animator: 87,000

VFX artist:82,000

lighting artist:47,000

concept artist:56,000

3d modeler:77,000

rigging artist:40,000(totally not worth it DX)

although i dunno how accurate it is, since I heard that lighting artists get paid tons of money...