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Doug Hudson
Bremerton


Subject: salaries

This is one about Michael Jordan's salary: Making REAL Money!!!

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 days. 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. A quickie will net him $1855.

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 have this income for 270 more years to
have a net worth equivalent to that of Bill Gates.

All I can say is.. must be a rough life *cough, cough*