the worlds best paid athletes....the listing...
 

geez...look at Norway...average household income of plus $78k USD:detective:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6391145

Interesting reading, never knew Jesper Gronkjaer was from Greenland. Good quiz question that.

Er....thats per capita GDP mate, very different from average household income.

http://www.fhi.no/eway/default.aspx?...:5977:15:::0:0

http://www.flightpedia.org/exchange-...0-nok-usd.html

OK....$77,000 USD.

Tommie, Yes Gonzo beat me to it there its per person not per household! But I can well believe it. My mrs 2 sisters both married to Norwegians and live in Oslo.
It helps them only having 4 million people but they invested their North Sea oil wealth wisely and did'nt fritter it away like we (or should I say our thick politicians) did. And of course they had the good sense not to join the EU so hav'nt had to shell out billions to those fuckers in Brussels.
Simie.

Its quite intresting when you sort the data showing the top earners from 32 mil downto 10 mil - FMD and to think that's an annual salary:

Philippines Manny Pacquiao boxing two fights in 2010 $32,000,000

USA Alex Rodriguez baseball MLB, New York Yankees $32,000,000

Finland Kimi Raikkonen auto racing World Rally Championship $26,333,333

Spain Fernando Alonso auto racing Formula One $22,736,842

Venezuela Johan Santana baseball MLB, New York Mets $21,644,707

Italy Valentino Rossi motorcycle racing Moto GP $20,800,000

Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo soccer La Liga, Real Madrid $19,500,000

Puerto Rico Carlos Beltran baseball MLB, New York Mets $19,325,436

Argentina Carlos Tevez soccer EPL, Manchester City $19,000,000

Dominican Republic Alfonso Soriano baseball MLB, Chicago Cubs $19,000,000

Panama Carlos Lee baseball MLB, Houston Astros $19,000,000

U.S. Virgin Islands Tim Duncan basketball NBA, San Antonio Spurs $18,700,000

England Lewis Hamilton auto racing Formula One $18,473,684

Ivory Coast Yaya Toure soccer EPL, Manchester City $18,200,000

Canada Jason Bay baseball MLB, New York Mets $18,125,000

Japan Ichiro Suzuki baseball MLB, Seattle Mariners $18,000,000

Russia Andrei Kirilenko basketball NBA, Utah Jazz $17,822,187

China Yao Ming basketball NBA, Houston Rockets $17,700,000

Germany Dirk Nowitzki basketball NBA, Dallas Mavericks $17,278,618

Brazil Felipe Massa auto racing Formula One $17,052,632

Serbia Peja Stojakovic basketball NBA, Dallas Mavericks $15,602,138

France Franck Ribery soccer Bundesliga, Bayern Munich $14,100,000

Sweden Zlatan Ibrahimovic soccer Serie A, AC Milan $12,700,000

Haiti Samuel Dalembert basketball NBA, Sacramento Kings $12,200,000

Togo Emmanuel Adebayor soccer EPL, Manchester City $11,900,000

Sudan Luol Deng basketball NBA, Chicago Bulls $11,355,850

Australia Andrew Bogut basketball NBA, Milwaukee Bucks $11,050,000

Poland Robert Kubica auto racing Formula One $10,657,895

Netherlands Nigel De Jong soccer EPL, Manchester City $10,500,000

Mexico Jorge De La Rosa baseball MLB, Colorado Rockies $10,000,000

New Zealand Russell Coutts yachting RC 44 Championship Tour $10,000,000

Those figures are the base salaries which is only part of the story. The total income is something completely different.

David Beckham for example, earned around 40 million US dollars (£24 million) last year which is more than Lewis Hamilton and more than the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo (£23 million) and Lionel Messi (£19 million). :ohmy:


http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...s-list?cc=4716

how true mate....each American baseball player has an additional contract with each baseball card manufacturer...

Topps used to be the kingpin of the industry...and might still be...20 years ago they used to pay each Major Leaguer...80k USD for the rights to print their mugs on little cardboard collectibles like this.......don't know what the factories pay the players now, as I haven't been interested in that scene for a long time.

Endorsements?...forgetaboutit...Michael Jordan still makes an incredible amount of bread through endorsements...used to be upwards of 30 million a year...have no idea how much these guys make now.

Have you seen all those Hollywood stars with their mugs on the back of magazines with a Rolex on their wrist? how much do those guys get for that ad?:detective:...