$8.6 million an hour? How are the benefits?

Anyone who knows a teenager knows that federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour, up to a dollar or so more in a few states. Well, apparently there's a maximum wage, too. $8.6 million. Well, $8.57 million to be exact. Yes, an hour. That's how much one Kody Lostroh earned last year. Now I know what you're thinking -- must be a schoolteacher, right? Firefighter? They're a pretty lavishly equipped bunch. But no, Mr. Lostroh is Professional Bull Rider, and as the leading money winner on the Tour last season, he collected a cool $1.6 million in prize money. That's because riding an aggravated and muscular beast with spears on its head is a little more dangerous than running 500 copies, and this isn't Ancient Rome, so they only make you do it for 8 seconds at a time. With a total on-bull clock-in of 11:24 for the year, Lostroh made a lifetime's salary in the same amount of time it takes most of us to get out of bed in the morning, though this is of course discounting all the other hours that go into being a Professional Bull Rider...more