FW: Feeling a little underpaid? (fwd)

Andy Engle (andy@edi.paimail.com)
Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:07:04 -0400 (EDT)


Saints, 

An (kinda humorous) illustration of our society's wacked values.


Andy (ENGLE!)


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>Michael Jordan will make over $300,000 a game, $10,000 a minute assuming   
>he averages about 30 minutes a game.
>
>Assuming $40 mil in endorsements next year, he'll be making $178,100 a   
>day (working or not)!
>
>Assuming he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while
>visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
>
>If he goes to see Independence Day, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make
>$18,550 while he's there.
>
>If he decides to have a 5 minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it.
>
>He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage (after the wage hike)
>
>He'll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.
>
>If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a
>whole 12 hours.
>
>If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would   
>have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
>
>He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be
>'reimbursed' $33,390 for that round.
>
>He could take 1/100,000th of his income and buy some poor college student   
>5200 packages of Ramen.
>
>Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into his tax
>deferred account (401k), he will hit the federal cap of $9500 for such   
>Accounts at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st, 1997.
>
>If you were given a tenth of a penny for every dollar he made, you'd be
>living comfortably at $65,000 a year.
>
>He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the   
>Olympics.
>
>He'll make about $15,600 while the Boston Marathon is being run.
>
>While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy
>Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600.
>
>Next year, he'll make more than twice as much as all of our past   
>presidents for all of their terms combined.
>
>And something to cheer you up after all of this. . .
>
>Jordan will only have to earn this income for 270 more years to have a   
>net worth equivalent to that of Bill Gates.