Archive for the 'Income - Individual' Category

Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers 2007

The pay scale in the graph is in US$ millions therefore the top hedge fund manager, John Paulson, had an income in 2007 of $3.7 billion ($3,700,000,000).

Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers 2007

Data from Institutional Investor’s Alpha Magazine via Telegraph.co.uk.

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Highest Paid American Athletes 2007

In honor of the the Super Bowl, I am posting Sports Illustrated’s Fortunate 50 top-earning American athletes (earnings include salary, winnings, bonuses, and endorsements). However, only one of the players in today’s game made the list, Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, Rank: 47.

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Income of United States, Japan, India, China, and Indonesia since 1500 magnifying glass

I found a nice table of this data on SportsColumn.com. Salaries are based on current or most recently completed seasons (exception: 2007 for NFL). For winnings-based sports (auto racing, golf, tennis), 2006 calendar year amounts used.

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Highest Paid Hip-Hop Artists 2006

Forbes has introduced a new ranking this year for Hip-Hop Cash Kings. I assume this means their Highest Paid Celebrities list is very popular since they are branching out into other subgenera. So what make someone a Hip-Hop Cash King? Sources of income include: running their own record labels; producing tracks and beats for other artists; endorsement deals; selling apparel, ringtones, video games and a line of fiction.

Highest Paid Hip-Hop Artists

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Forbes 500 Female CEO Pay 2006

Forbes’ ranking of CEO pay includes the 12 women running a Forbes 500 company. Unlike the highest paid female executives graph I posted earlier this one is not necessarily the highest paid female CEOs just women who are CEOs of companies in the Forbes 500.

 12 Women CEOs of Forbes 500 Companies

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