20 Highest-Paid Players in the NBA

Kaitlin Madden, AOL Jobs Contributor
Updated

The NBA tournament champion is still being decided, but we can already pinpoint the league's winners in another area: salary.

According to DraftExpress.com, the league's 20 highest-paid players all have contracts worth more than $15 million per year. To draw a quick comparison, according to the most recent data from the Labor Department's Occupational Employment Statistics, the average salary in the U.S. is $44,410 ($21.35/hour), meaning it would take the average person more than 558 years to earn the annual salary of the league's highest-paid player, Kobe Bryant.

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