From steve@voyager.undiscover.comMon Oct 7 01:53:08 1996 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 20:59:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Cheok Reply to: cheok@sfu.ca To: "Buddies -- Brian \"da Bean\" Jang" , Hubert Wong , "Bernard \"Prof VGA\" Wu" , "Rowan \"Cthulu\" Lipkovits" , "Eddy \"the edge\" Tang" , Eric Ngai , Eva Yu , Inge Regina Harsono , Jeff Chau , Loong Chan , Pauline Mah , Rachel Chan , Shirley Chiang , Uncle Willy , April Jung , Steven Sam , Derek Sam Subject: Making REAL Money (fwd) This is not "make quick money scam". It's simply some facts about Michael Jordan (his income, spendings, etc). Haven fun! =8) Regards, Steve --- Stephen Cheok | E-mail: cheok@sfu.ca Simon Fraser University |Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1758 BioChemistry (Undergrad) | Warning: "This message will self-destruct in..." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 14:29:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Colin Chow Subject: Making REAL Money (fwd) > > 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. > > > >