It’s comp season for us average Joes. All over North America these days cube jockeys like you and I are finding out that we are not getting raises and our bonuses have been cut to Jelly of Every Other Month Club level. But at least we’re still getting paid right? These days having a job at all seems good enough. But I would just like to take a second and put into perspective just how wide the gap is between us and professional athletes, in terms of keeping it real. Even keeping in mind that hockey players are by far the lowest compensated of all 4 major sports, their biweekly checks (if that’s even how they’re delivered) would be enough to make us kiss our bosses on the genitals daily in order to keep them coming. So picture very accurately, imagine if you will for a moment, your name on a check for any of these amounts every 15th and 30th of the month: Even Randy Jones gets a little Philadelphia Flyers check for $125,000 every couple of weeks. I don’t want to show my hand too much but Danny Briere makes more in 2 weeks of work than I do in a year! (so do many, many other Flyers).

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