Forbes: The World’s 25 Top-Earning Athletes
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Yours Truly under Business Profiles
1. Tiger Woods – 100 mil.
2. Oscar Del La Hoya – 43 mil.
3. Phil Mickelson – 42.2 mil
4. Kimi Raikkonen – 40 mil.
5. Michael Schumacher – 36 mil.
6. David Beckham – 33 mil.
7. Kobe Bryant – 32.9 mil.
8. Shaquille O’Neal – 31.9 mil.
9. (tie) Michael Jordan – 31 mil.
9. (tie) Ronaldinho – 31 mil.
11. Valentino Rossi – 30 mil.
12. Alex Rodriguez – 29.2 mil.
13. Roger Federer – 29 mil.
14. Derek Jeter – 28.3 mil.
15. LeBron James – 27.3 mil.
16. Floyd Mayweather – 26.5 mil.
17. Yao Ming – 26.3 mil.
18. Vijay Singh – 25.8 mil.
19. Leonard Davis – 25.4 mil.
20. Arnold Palmer – 25 mil.
21. Jeff Gordon – 24.5 mil.
22. Kevin Garnett – 24.3 mil.
23. Reggie Bush – 23.8 mil.
24. Allen Iverson – 23.3 mil.
25. Maria Sharapova – 23 mil.
Slightly over half of the athletes are on ‘team’ sports and the high rollers seem to come from Golf and F1 Auto Racing while there are 7 NBA players on the list.
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