After benefits, my company (a Tier One industry partner) was paying $48 per hour.
Not a single one of those jobs remains in the USA.
We now manufacture in Mexico and Korea just to stay alive.
A mid-career IT professional, with a college degree, ongoing certifications, and perhaps some management experience, working something way above a 40 hour week (assuming they can maintain their technological skills and knowledge) is going to pull in about what the average hourly lineworker makes - a job that requires a high school diploma, and essentially no job experience that wasn’t given to him/her by his/her employer.
Either IT pros are paid too little, or auto company line workers are paid too much.