Professional sport has never paid better. The twenty best-paid athletes on earth now share more than four billion dollars between them in a single year — Cristiano Ronaldo alone takes home more than the entire first-team wage bill at most Premier League clubs.
Those numbers are so large they stop meaning anything. So here is a smaller one instead: how long does it take them to earn what you earn in a year? Put your salary in below and find out — then see how long you would each have to work for a coffee, an iPhone, or a house.
Your salary, before tax. Nothing is stored or sent anywhere.
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| Thing | Price | You wait | They wait | In your wait, they’d buy |
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Applied to both their salary and yours, so the comparison stays like-for-like.
Simple projection — no investment growth, no inflation, no agent's cut.