The Wall Street Journal has an interesting way to look at non-competitive sportsmen like bull-riders, poker players, or competitive eaters: By the amount they make for every hour they compete. In that respect, Joey Chestnut, the current reigning hot dog eating champion, makes $17,296 an hour. And rodeo champ Kody Lostroh makes $8.57 million dollars for every hour of competition. Kind of makes those exorbitant baseball salaries look sick in comparison.
Do Not Laugh at the Non-Traditional Sportsmen
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I suppose that’s one way to do the numbers. Another is a competitive eater’s entire lifetime earning potential is about that of a Denny’s waiter. A baseball player that manages his money decently can expect a comfortable retirement after about 4 years of work.
C.C. Sabathia of the Yankees makes more than $125,000 per game, well over $40,000 an hour.
But baseball players don’t do anything.
You mean “non-traditional” not “non-competitive” ?
Would it also make sense to calculate our hourly wages based on only the time actually pressing the keys on the keyboard?
Paying you for the time spent thinking about which key to press makes about as much sense as paying you for eating or sleeping before you come to work. Lots of things are prerequisites for pushing the keys but I say all that counts is the pushing.
“non-competitive …competitive eaters”
We should only calculate it on the exact moment that we get our paychecks, or for those with direct deposit the millisecond that the pay appears in your account. That way we’re all making shit tons of cash per hour! Except we’re not. And neither are these people. And especially everyone else competing in those fields who aren’t at the absolute pinnacle.
Dumbest. math. ever.
Professional video game players for games such as Starcraft have huge salaries and fan clubs. That’s right, multiple thousands (like 10 or 20 thousand not just one or two) of members of their fan club.
Also in Korea video gaming is such a huge sport that tournaments can’t fit in any regular stadiums so they find huge open spaces and setup temporary huge outdoor TVs.
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It just goes to show that not all sportsmen are muscular and athletic. Some are quite short, skinny, and nerdy yet still are seen as a person of admiration.
Assuming a working career from 18 to 65, and a 40 hour work week, 52 weeks a year, a person who has a billion dollars, if he were to pay himself for those hours would get:
52 * 40 * 47 = 97,760 hours
$1 billion / 97760 =
$10,229 per hour