Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder, but I will freely admit to having seen it displayed on hangers at the local department store. I’ve also seen beauty on celebrities, baristas, tax accountants, and Olympic athletes. Of course, I’m talking about the beauty specifically conceived, designed, and created by talented fashion […]
How Much Do Astronauts Make?
Would you like to be the first person to step on the face of Mars? Have your own Neil Armstrong moment forever marked in the history books children will study for generations to come? That might all sound really good to you, but there are practical considerations. One of those is finding out just how […]
How Much Do Uber Drivers Make?
The ride-sharing app Uber is part of the growing “share economy,” wherein individuals choose to operate on a peer-to-peer (P2P) basis, rather in a peer-to-business (P2B) fashion. Traditionally, when someone needs to call a car to get them somewhere, they will call a car that is owned and licensed by a taxi company. Taxi drivers don’t […]
How Much Do Authors Make A Year?
A college English professor once told me, “There’s dozens of dollars in writing.” Save for big-ticket authors like Stephen King, James Patterson, and Janet Evanovich, whose books will feature everywhere from airport newsstands to indie bookstores, writers are never going to have vaults of coins that they can dive into Scrooge McDuck style. Authors have to […]
How Much Do Meteorologists Make?
Weather demonstrations are among the most popular choices for middle school science fair exhibits. You might have made an anemometer out of string and then measured the wind speed at different corners of your house. Or, you may have shown how warm and cold air fronts affect weather when they collide. Whatever it was, if […]
How Much Does A CIA Agent Make?
Out of the many clandestine jobs that people love to speculate about, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent is one of the most mysterious. Scores of films, television shows, and books have made the lives of these agents look like thrill-a-minute, globe-hopping adventures. This image of CIA agents was reified as recently as the summer 2016 […]
How Much Do Video Game Designers Make?
With how much the video gaming industry has boomed in the past ten years–thank, smartphones!–you might think that there isn’t a better time to break into the world of game development. Sitting right at the top of that pile of assumptions is how much the typical game designer makes per year. The truth behind that […]
How Much Do Music Producers Make?
If there’s one constant that we can count on when it comes to careers in the arts, it’s that salaries and pay ranges are going to be outrageously different, depending on who you ask. If you’re curious as to how much money a talented music producer can make, for example, it’s actually possible to give […]
How Much Do WNBA Players Make?
Though it can be fairly easy to look into prospective pay rates for quite a few different career paths, professional athletics has always been an amorphous, unpredictable ever-changing thing. Take the basketball players of the WNBA for example–how much do you think that they’re making per year? If you’ve been using NBA players’ salaries as […]
How Much Do Anesthesiologists Make?
For such a highly specialized branch of medicine, anesthesiology is notorious for allowing its practitioners to rake in rather large yearly paychecks. To many people, anesthesiologists are just people who see patients right before a surgery to administer an anesthetic to make their surgical procedure as painless as possible. Things are rarely simple in the […]