The answer to the eternal question...
"Is it better to be a "Jock" or a "Nerd"?"... Consider the following:
Michael Jordan makes 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 sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
If he goes to see a movie, 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/llr more than minimum wage. 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 Maim 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 gold but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round.
Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax-deferred account (401k), he will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 am on January 1st of each year. If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars 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 during the Boston Marathon.
While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600. In his last year, he made more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents did for all of their terms combined.
However if Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 250 years, he'll still have less money than Bill Gates has today. Game over. Nerd wins.
