HEMS-pilots make about 75000 Euro per year (before tax) in Germany.
I'd like to meet with those guys. I know pilots with the old ADAC contracts, not the trendy outsourced pilot BS that make just over €5000/month before tax and social insurances being with the club for more than one decade.
90k at 52% tax still makes you €3600 net/months, not too shabby. In Germany you're considered rich when you as a single person have more than €3418 net, no kidding.