Yeh, this makes me feel better about my salary

Just when I thought I was doing pretty good salary wise - I had to come across this:

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It's the 'ESPN Salary Crunch'!

Or the "After reading how much these guys make I realized I sucked" calculator.

Here's how it works: Joe here just agreed, yeh, "agreed" - any one of you ever "agree" to a salary at a job you were about to take - more like "gave-in" to a salary...any way, all one has to do is put their salary into the box - press the button and it will tell you how long it will take for Joe here to make that money.

So, I looked up the average salary for the American worker, (it's $25,000), and put that in and found out the answer.

The cash makes up for having to live in Minnesota

As you can see, he doesn't even have to play an entire game, nor hit a home run, nor have an RBI, (sports term), or have a hit to make $25,000 - oh, and by the way, one making $25,000 would have to work over 821 years to make that kind of money. Tough gig, Joe.

Then there's this guy:

With that kind of cabbage you'd think he could afford a better haircut

Tim here only has to show-up for a seven inning game, I mean, he doesn't even have to play, get one and half strikes on a batter, pitch half of an inning, and wouldn't have to win a game...not bad for a 20-year old.

We have this guy:

Hmm, Detroit...you got scammed Justin

It would only take you 640 years to make this dude's salary.

Now, I get it - supply/demand - and if they can get it good for them. But it is quite ridiculous when you think that teachers, police officers and fire fighters make close to nothing.

Oh and by the way, thanks ESPN for posting this on your site - not sure if you were making a point about the insane amount of money these players make or you just wanted to make Joe Construction Worker, who by the way is your demo, feel like crap about his minimum wage.