what is more important: money or quality of life?

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False. There are many other jobs/professions/small businesses that people earn $100K/year at.

Construction/Trades Contractors & technicians of various types
Law Enforcement
Health/Medicine/Nursing etc
Realtors
Mortgage Brokers
Lawyers
Engineers
Salesmen
Bartenders (Yes, it's true they can earn that.)
Medical Marijuana Growers
Longshoremen

Just to name a few.

I was once earning close to what you earn now and I found that it didn't allow me the time to be happy or even know if I had a good quality of life. Salaries like that mean your life no longer belongs to you. Since then I have had more time for myself and can explore my abilities and work towards what may make me happy. My quality of life without money is ok, I don't have much to worry about.

Quality of life is definitely more important than how much money you make. I've had several people tell me that I shouldn't go into social work because I won't make a lot of money, but the fact is, I'm not going into it for the money at all! Plus, I don't plan on having children so I'll save a lot. Although hopefully I have a husband who has a higher-paying job than me. I always say I'd rather be poor doing what I love than rich doing what I hate!

My dad works in construction, carpentry & it sounds like your talking about a different type of construction but that is still very hard manual work that involves health risk & hazards. My dad makes no where near that kind of money & he's self-employed so he has no benefits through his work(his helath insurance is though my mom's former job; she's a retired school-teacher) & he also has to buy all his own tools & pay 15% of his income for Social Security tax instead of 7%. He's been doing that along time; he started when he was in college & dropped out & focused on carpentry instead after his English teacher told him she would never pass him after he failed a couple times. He likes what he does thou there's aspects he doesn't like & he doesn't have too many physical problems that interfere thou at times he has issues because of certain task he has been doing for awhile.
My mom on the other hand was a public school teacher. She liked the job for awhile but administration & bureaucracy & added on requirements made her start hating it. She liked teaching the kids when she could be creative & fun instead of BS requirements tying her hands behind her back figuratively speaking & then worrying more about teaching test than actually learning. She had alot of stress from work, was doing a lot of extra stuff at home or was staying at school when she wasn't in class to do things, & the building had devloped a bad mold problem which caused her health to suffer alot but she still pushed on till she couldn't deal with it anymore so she could get a bigger retirement check. She has a worse quality of life rite now than my dad due to her health issues that were related to her job even thou working in construction like my dad would generally thought to be alot more hazardous to health. My parents are still married btw.
Don't worry too much about those statistics about quality of life. Office/desk-jobs may generally offer a better quality of life it's not always the case for various reasons; your quality of life won't be good if the office environment is not a good fit for you(for example hating office politics & the social aspects of office jobs could make you get tired of it fast). If you like working in construction now & aren't too bothered by the long hours or the demanding physical task; keep doing it for now. Save up some & you can have it for latter when you start having problems & want to try something different or if you do get married & need/want more time off you could afford to work less & change your position alittle within the construction field so you'd be able to have more time off & not be bothered if the pay is less.