This New York magazine survey is a look at people's annual salaries.
On the list is 50 Cent, Tom Stewart, a Tower Records stock clerk, John Lennon, writer Malcolm Gladwell, Martha Stewart, Lori Lyons, a garbagewoman, and David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine.
I've included a partial list below. It's not in any order. The list is interesting, funny and sad all at the same time.
Who Makes How Much
Sister Marie of the Precious Blood
$0
Cloistered nun
Flower
$150,000
Cocaine dealer, Lower East Side
($275 per one-eighth ounce)
50 Cent
$50 million
Rapper, hyphenate
Diddy
$36 million
Rapper, superhyphenate
The Strokes
$835,000
Rockers, Room on Fire (570,000 copies sold at roughly
$1.50 per album)
Wynton Marsalis
$796,012
Artistic director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
John Lennon
$21 million
Deceased singer-songwriter
Frank Sinatra
$5 million
Deceased singer-songwriter
Mark Ronson
$400,000
D.J.
Tom Stewart
$20,000
Tower Records clerk
Lorin Maazel
$1,909,155
Conductor, New York Philharmonic
Joseph Volpe
$713,000
General manager, Metropolitan Opera
Renée Fleming
$135,000
Mezzo-soprano, Metropolitan Opera
($15,000 per performance)
George M.
$16,800
Street musician, Astor Place subway station
Jennifer R.
$350,000
(last name withheld) First-year broker
Hector Norat
$42,196
Superintendent, 209 W. 97th St.
Books
Malcolm Gladwell
$1.5 million
Author, Blink
(advance, plus $250,000 New Yorker salary and $30,000 per speaking engagement)
James Dolan
$9.5 million
Chairman, CEO, and president, Cablevision
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
$6.3 million
CEO, Warner Music Group
David Neeleman
$286,971
Chairman and CEO, JetBlue Airways
John Thain
$4 million
CEO, New York Stock Exchange
Chelsea Clinton
$120,000
Consultant, McKinsey & Co.
Jake Gyllenhaal
$3 million
Actor, Jarhead
Maggie Gyllenhaal
$500,000
Actress, upcoming untitled Oliver Stone 9/11 film
Rosario Dawson
$1 million
Actress, Rent
Peter Sarsgaard
$750,000
Actor, Flight Plan
Sarah Jessica Parker
$38 million
Gap spokeswoman
(plus $1 million for the upcoming Failure to Launch)
