By The Beachwood Salary Survey Affairs Desk
Parade magazine put out its annual salary survey on Sunday and, as usual, it was pretty fascinating. (Smart move putting Tiger Woods on the cover; he makes $110 million a year.)
We picked out what we thought were the most interesting salaries. For your consideration:
Name: Taylor Swift
Occupation: Country singer
Annual Salary: $17.2 million
Comment: Just think how much she’ll make when she can sing in tune.
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Name: Jay Leno
Occupation: Talk-show host
Annual Salary: $32 million
Comment: Just think how much he’d make if he was funny.
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Name: John Stumpf
Occupation: CEO of Wells Fargo
Annual Salary: $18.7 million
Comment: Just think how much he’d have made if his bank’s performance was even worse.
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Name: Gloria Ward-Ravenell
Occupation: Food bank coordinator in Oxon Hill, Maryland
Annual Salary: $20,600.
Comment: Just think how much she’d make if she couldn’t sing, tell jokes or run a bank.
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Name: Sonia Sotomayor
Occupation: U.S. Supreme Court justice
Annual Salary: $208,100.
Comment: $191,900 less than the Major League Baseball minimum wage.
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Name: David Currin
Occupation: Bus driver in Harvey, Illinois
Annual Salary: $67,000
Comment: Um, not to begrudge Mr. Currin, but how many streets are there in Harvey?
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Name: Marty Mulder
Occupation: Motel owner in Watford City, North Dakota
Annual Salary: $440,000
Comment: Must be the only motel in Watford City – and it must be a doozy!
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Name: Gary Giguere
Occupation: Circuit-court judge in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Annual Salary: $139,900
Comment: Making the Supreme Court wouldn’t even double his salary.
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Name: Dan Kohl
Occupation: Truck driver in Duluth, Minnesota
Annual Salary: $91,400
Comment: Um, not to begrudge Mr. Kohl, but how many streets are there in Duluth?
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Name: Chase Nagle
Occupation: Police sergeant in Helena, Alabama
Annual Salary: $67,500
Comment: Um, not to begrudge Mr. Nagle, but how many criminals are there in Helena, Alabama?
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Name: Elfreda Higgins
Occupation: State representative for Garden City, Idaho
Annual Salary: $16,100
Comment: That’s not a misprint.
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Name: Douglas Olsen
Occupation: Drugstore manager in Lake Mary, Florida
Annual Salary: $104,800
Comment: Um, not to begrudge Mr. Olsen, but how many Oxycontin addicts are there in Lake Mary?
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Name: Sheila O’Malley
Occupation: Economic development director for Oakville, Connecticut
Annual Salary: $80,000
Comment: Um, not to begrudge Ms. O’Malley, but how much economic development is there in Oakville?
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Name: Mark Sanford
Occupation: Governor of South Carolina
Annual Salary: $106,000
Comment: Not for long.
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Comments welcome.
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1. From Joan Edwards re: Marty Mulder, motel owner in Watford City, North Dakota:
Actually, the motel is not the only motel in town. But it is the nicest. I stayed there last summer and Marty was a most accommodating host. The motel has a pool as well as an in-house laundromat. Many oil rig crews stay there because it feels like a home away from home.
Posted on April 12, 2010