Models have a shitty life though, especially women, lot of stress and drug/alcohol problems, you have to watch every fucking calories you eat, always the fear of not being good enough and replaced by younger/more attractive models (so not a good long terme career plan), travel to a shitton of places without the time to enjoy the place, and the salary is actually SHITTY for the average model, if you want to compare the salary of the best models you have to compare it with the high paying professions, not average salary with the most well-payed models.
And men models have even lower salary.
Your analysis is biased by the survival bias, you just look at the most successfull models, and even those have the issues with stress/drug problems/fear/anxiety i talked about.
If i was a chad, i'd prefer to have another job than model even if i could be a model.