Your question has been answered hundreds of times. Thru hard work and enough clients a CPA's income can easily hit $ 100,000 . Or, you can sit in a closed room, never let anyone know you are a CPA, not offer your skills to anyone and earn ZERO. I know a Shoe shiner in Florida who earns well over 6 figures for the past 20 years and all he does is shine shoes for $ 4 , lots of them .

Yes.

Through hard work and years of experience.