Most of my dealing shifts were on weeknights, I would imagine that weekends would be a bit bigger. I also dealt before Lodge really was blowing up with huge games, which I also assume would result in bigger tips etc. I was usually in the $20-25/hr range. The tourney tips would be only from the tip boxes/dealer add-ons, nothing directly from buyins. When I was dealing there we had a small base pay also, dunno what they are doing now on that, so it's not like tourneys were unpaid downs.
I would def imagine it's possible for good and fast dealers to average in the $40/hr range, baking in that there are brush downs, break downs, dead spreads that do bring down the average, but also a down at a huge game with some drunk fish running hot can bring it way up.
You (and me and almost everyone else) is almost certainly playing too much out of position. I def make my 3/4b sizing larger if I'm out of position to offset the positional disadvantage, but playing OOP sucks on ice overall. Part of the issue of getting too agg OOP is that then you end up just isolating yourself against the top of your opp's range AND being OOP. That's why leading out OOP is very very rarely done, esp in raised pots.