Basic wage for a start out micro brewer about $37K. Work your way up from there if the business is doing well. Its really is for the love of it <_<
I dont know where you get that figure. A brewer starting out with very little knowledge would be on 40-50k......Head brewers or a senior brewer between 55-80....and then probably 80-150 for the top tier, like operations managers/executive brewers etc