that come from, or are still playing Quake. earnings come from overall FPS games (Q3, UT, PAINKILLER, Q4, QL, DOOM3) as of 2013, per esportsearnings.com:

1. United States of America Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel $454,544.98
2. Netherlands Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager $232,600.00
3. Italy Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone $166,114.72
4. China Meng "RocketBoy" Yang $141,523.16
5. United States of America John "ZeRo4" Hill $139,400.00|Quake III Arena

6. Sweden Johan "Toxjq" Quick $129,431.39
7. Germany Benjamin "ZyZ" Bohrmann $107,651.07
8. Belarus Alexei "Cypher" Yanushevsky $105,444.40
9. United States of America Shane "rapha" Hendrixson $95,800.87
10. Russia Anton "Cooller" Singov $95,716.29

*although he has never won a quake live 1v1 tournament, a majority of his earnings come from a time when Q3 tournaments had a $30,000 purse! wow!
*interesting to note that rapha has won more $ than cypher in quakelive, but cypher has won more $ overall (as he played both Q4 and 2nd gen Q3)