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How Celebrities Make Their Millions
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Beyoncé Knowles
$87 million
In the last year, Queen B dropped a double album, starred in two films, performed at both the Oscars and a Presidential Inaugural Ball and embarked on what is expected to be, at minimum, a 110-date international tour. She also expanded a fashion collection that includes casual and formal lines as well as jewelry and eyeglasses, and added sponsors Nintendo, Crystal Geyser and General Mills to a roster of endorsers already including L'Oréal, Giorgio Armani and Samantha Thavasa handbags.
How Beyoncé made her $87 million in the past year:
Touring and Merchandise: $14 million
Album Sales: $21 million
Music Publishing: $8 million
Film: $5 million
Endorsements: $20 million
Tour Sponsors: $4 million
Fashion: $15 million
Glenn Beck
$23 million
Beck's rapidly expanding media empire includes multiple revenue sources: TV ($2 million), a radio show ($10 million), books ($5 million), speeches (half a million), appearances ($2.5 million) and a Web site ($3 million). The move from CNN to Fox News grabbed big headlines for the popular but polarizing pundit.
How Glenn Beck made $23 million in the past year:
Radio: $10 million
Speeches: $500,000
Books: $5 million
GlennBeck.com: $3 million
Appearances: $2.5 million
Fox News show: $2 million
Jeff Gordon
$30 million
The "Rainbow Warrior" failed to win a NASCAR race last year, his first winless season since his rookie year in 1993. Rebounded this year; broke a 47-race winless streak at the Samsung 500 in April. Currently leading the Sprint Cup Series standings. Gordon is a co-owner of the No. 48 car driven by Jimmie Johnson, who has won three straight Sprint Cup Series titles.
How Jeff Gordon made $30 million in the past year:
Salary: $10 million
Winnings: $4 million
Licensing: $6 million
Endorsements: $10 million
Manny Pacquiao
$40 million
Widely regarded at the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, Pacquiao had two blockbuster fights in the past year: He took on Oscar De La Hoya in December and Ricky Hatton in May. Pac-Man is a huge celebrity in his home of the Philippines and plans to run for political office there once his days in the ring are over. Counts Nike and beer maker San Miguel among his sponsors.
How Manny Pacquiao made $40 million in the past year:
David Diaz fight: $3 million
Oscar De La Hoya fight: $15 million
Ricky Hatton fight: $14 million
Philippines TV: $4 million
Endorsements: $4 million
Ryan Seacrest
$38 million
The hardest-working man in entertainment: hosts American Idol, a top 40 radio countdown, E! News and other red-carpet events, plus ABC's New Year's Eve special. In addition to lucrative deals with both ClearChannel Radio and the Comcast Entertainment Group, he develops and produces TV shows, including E's Keeping up with the Kardashians and NBC's Momma's Boys. Has endorsement deals with Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola.
How Ryan Seacrest made $38 million in the past year:
American Idol: $6 million
Comcast Entertainment (including E! News): $13 million
Radio: $ 14 million
Endorsements (including Coca-Cola): $2.5 million
Miscellaneous Hosting (including New Year's Eve on ABC): $1 million
TV Production (including Keeping Up with the Kardashians): $1.5 million
The 20 Most Profitable Small Businesses
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20. Wired Telecommunication Carriers
Average Pretax Margin, 2000 to 2009: 10.1%
This industry comprises operators of, or suppliers to, transmission facilities for voice, data, text, sound and video using wired telecommunications. Hey, it's a wired world.
19. Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations
Average Pretax Margin: 10.3%
Includes contract outfits that perform a variety of services, on a fee basis, for oil and gas operations (except site preparation and related construction activities). Services include, among other things: exploration (except geophysical surveying and mapping); excavating slush pits and cellars; well surveying; cementing, cleaning, bailing and chemically treating wells. Dirty work, but someone has to do it.
18. Offices of General or Family Practitioners
Average Pretax Margin: 10.4%
Insurance companies do all they can to crimp doctors' payouts, but treating junior's fevers still turns a handsome profit.
17. Diagnostic Imaging Centers
Average Pretax Margin: 10.5%
Small fry may have difficulty raising the scratch to buy expensive equipment; once it's installed, though, economies of scale start to kick in. Depending on the type of lab, the marginal cost of doing "one more" test--thanks to typically lean staffing--can be very small.
17. Veterinary Services
Average Pretax Margin: 10.5%
Includes licensed practitioners of veterinary medicine, dentistry, surgery and testing. If Spot needs help, even the expensive kind, he's going to get it.
15. Investment Advice
Average Pretax Margin: 11%
These are financial planners who don't have the authority to execute trades. Few things are as opaque as fees for financial-services fees--which is probably why this industry makes our list.
15. Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists
Average Pretax Margin: 11%
These outfits operate private or group practices (clinics and centers) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers. More proof that specialization pays.
13. Consumer Lending
Average Pretax Margin: 11.1%
Comprises companies primarily engaged in making cash loans or extending credit through various means (except credit cards and sales finance agreements). Two words: pricing power.
12. Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists)
Average Pretax Margin: 11.2%
Eight years of medical school and a tortuous residency pay off. No matter what the economy is doing, there are always sick people to treat. Still, general docs have steadily lost pricing power at the hands of large insurance providers.
11. Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
Average Pretax Margin: 11.3%
Included here are insurance agents and those that provide other services, like claims adjustments. Successful agents enjoy annuity-style profit streams: They nab an up-front commission upon selling a policy, as well as fees each year that the policy stays in place.
10. Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (Except Mini-Warehouses)
Average Pretax Margin: 11.6%
Included in this industry are owner-lessors of nonresidential buildings; renters of real estate who then act as lessors in subleasing it to others; and those who provide full-service office space, be it on a lease or service contract basis. The group also may include those who manage property themselves or have another establishment manage it for them. There's a term that describes the juicy economics at play here: mailbox money.
9. Offices of Optometrists
Average Pretax Margin: 12.2%
These practitioners have the degree of O.D. (Doctor of Optometry). They examine, diagnose, treat and manage diseases and disorders of the human visual system--that means prescribing and/or providing eyeglasses, contact lenses, low vision aids and vision therapy. These outfits operate private or group practices (clinics and centers) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers.
8. Lessors of Mini-Warehouses and Self-Storage Units
Average Pretax Margin: 12.3%
More mailbox money--and little upkeep required. No wonder storage units are No. 8 on our list.
7. Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers
Average Pretax Margin: 14.8%
Services include orthoscopic and cataract surgery on an outpatient basis; setting broken bones, treating lacerations, or tending to patients suffering injuries as a result of accidents, trauma or other problems that need immediate attention. These facilities include operating and recovery rooms, and specialized equipment, such as anesthetic or X-ray machines. In short: If a big rock falls on your leg, you're going to find a way to fix it--fast.
6. Sales Financing
Average Pretax Margin: 15.1%
These companies are popular in a credit crunch. They lend money for the purpose of providing collateralized goods through a contractual installment sales agreement, either directly from, or through, arrangements with dealers.
5. Tax Preparation Services
Average Pretax Margin: 15.1%
Who likes doing their taxes? Exactly.
4. Offices of Dentists
Average Pretax Margin: 15.4%
Dentists enjoy operating scale--that is, they can handle several patients at once. Some of the equipment is expensive, but hygienists don't cost much. Better yet, a lot of customers pay out of pocket. That gives dentists more pricing power relative to other medical providers.
3. Other Accounting Services
Average Pretax Margin: 15.5%
Various accounting, bookkeeping, billing and tax preparation services in any form, handled not necessarily by a Certified Public Accountant (see No. 1 on our list).
2. Offices of Chiropractors
Average Pretax Margin: 16%
Some question the medicinal value of their service. Hard to question their financial performance, though.
1. Offices of Certified Public Accountants
Average Pretax Margin: 17.1%
The most profitable niche of the bunch enjoys a nice mix of pricing power (everybody needs accountants, no matter how the economy is doing), low overhead and marketing scale, thanks to plenty of repeat clients.
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