He may very well make more than her. I am in academia, and academics don't get paid well. They also have to move, a lot. Plus the hours suck since you can't set your class schedule, and need to go to a lot of conferences. It's a wonderful career, it's my goal, but most professors I know are lower middle class and stressed with hours. I also don't get all this idea of prestige. All the professors I know are just big nerds who found a way to share their love of 20th century labor literature through the lense of social justice with someone. It's not prestigious.

Also, most professors are humble... cause they are constantly reminded how not smart they are. OP is so strange to me. There are usually only like max 5 people per field who have the honor to speak with arrogance like this, and yet they don't.

Idk how much instruction OP does, but she should be aware that a lot of professors are there because of factors outside their control. You can enter a nearly dead field for your PhD then 10 years later when you're finished it's booming, so wonderful time to get hired. You can be very bright, but are unable to pay for university (or stop working), so you don't. You see this often during instruction cause you see the various ways people pursue higher education.

It's a very hard job to get, getting tenure is amazing, but it's not prestigious. It isn't something to be arrogant over.