It's curious whow different it could be the same job in different places, and at the same time how simmilar they were. Here, also, the sharpener was who earned one of the most, but he wasn't the only one. Who worked fixing transportation and log moving equipment (oxen gear, pulleys and so), who usually was also a blacksmith, earned as much as the sharpener. I think axemen were high performance hard workers, earning in proportion, and the other especialists, earning in proportion also.
When I was speaking about the people who had very little social life, I was speaking about the axemen who's main job was only to cut trees. They worked in low populated areas in the Pyrenees and the south of France,*
There were other similar jobs related to woodcutting, like charcoal producers. They produced a lot of it for the steel industry, they could work in isolated areas or near the factories. Or like the basozaina, ranger I think is told in english, I may be wrong, don't hesitate to correct me. His job was forests farming, to cut what wood was demanded mainly by the naval and contruction industry. He could live in the village, in isolated areas or a combination of both. We could open a thead for each one of these jobs.
It would be interesting to listen different working ways in different regions. I encourage any one who has information about it to write here.