Working for Peanuts: Your Pay vs. Barry Zito

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Ever wonder just how under-paid you are? Consider this: The salary of Giants pitcher Barry Zito -- who's currently 0-5 for the season -- is $14.5 million this year. How many years would it take for you to make what Zito makes in one year? And most importantly, just how many orders of garlic fries does that buy? Select your annual pay range from the dropdown menu below and see how you score. ... [link]

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The Barry Zito Salary and Garlic Fry Calculator
Published 4/24/2008 by Will Brinson at FanHouse
... Actually, what the San Francisco Chronicle has created is a "calculator" to determine how long it would take you to make what ...

Barry Zito Could Buy More Garlic Fries Than You
Published 4/24/2008 by Matt Sussman at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... ) Thankfully the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE has come up with this handy Zito to fries conversion chart. You simply enter in your salary, and it tells you how many years it’d take you to work at that base salary to earn the $14.5 million that Zito will collect this year. This is a fantastic invention for people who don’t have a built-in calculator on their computer. So, those with early Linux builds. So, suppose you make … $30,000 a year. (Quit now! There’s a better job out there for you!) Just punch that salary bracket into the Zitometer (not really what it’s called), and find ...

Compare Your Pay to Barry Zito's Pay
Published 5 days ago by Andrew Godfrey (Niteowl049@msn.com) at Baseball, Etcetera
... made $14.5 million and I made $28,000 for the highest salary in over 40 years of working. It would take me 518 years to make what Barry Zito made in 2008. My pay per hour: $13.46  Zito’s pay per hour: $6,971.15 My pay per week: $538  Zito’s pay per week: $278,846 How many orders of garlic fries I could buy: 4,148  How many Zito could buy: 2,148,148 How many Zito bobbleheads I could buy: 1,753  How many Zito could buy: 907,952 http://www.sfgate.com/webdb/zitopay/

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