In his day, Michael Jordan made over $300,000 a game. That equals $10,000 a minute, at an average of 30 minutes per game.
With $40 million in endorsements, he made $178,100 a day, working or not.
If he slept 7 hours a night, he made $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums danced in his head.
If he went to see a movie, it cost him $9.50, but he made $18,550 while he was there.
If he decided to have a 5 minute egg, he would have made $618 while boiling it.
He made $7,415/hr more than minimum wage.
He'd made $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.
If he wanted to save up for a new Acura SLX (about $90,000) it would have taken him a whole 12 hours.
If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have had to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
He'd probably payed around $200 for a nice round of golf, but was reimbursed around $30,000 during that round.
Assuming he put the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), he would have hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st.
If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.
He would have made about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics.
He would have made about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.
While the common person was spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he would have pulled in about $5600.
In his last year, he made more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined.
... However...
... If Jordan had saved 100% of his income for the next 250 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates had right then.
Game over. Whoa.... Geek wins.
Aha! Another person who was paid when he wasn't working. ;) Is that fair? ;D :'(
Quote from: Diane Amberg on April 22, 2012, 04:23:32 PM
Aha! Another person who was paid when he wasn't working. ;) Is that fair? ;D :'(
Fair to whom? ??? ... the person receiving payment or the companies giving payment? ???
Wasn't working? ???
I (with company contractual agreement) will pay you, Michael:
... to wear my Hanes T-Shirt & Shorts on camera or any place you go.
... to Drive my car
... to use my camera
,,, to wear my Nike Air-Jordans
... to eat in my restaurant
... to drink my beer, my gatorade, my milk , my whatever!
Why?... because you are the greatest basketball player EVER to play the game.... next to Larry Bird, of course! 8)
Warph,
LARRY Bird --- Michael JORDON?? Naw, we don't even want to go there---white men can't jump :D