Yao Ming is very rich, but he can only get around 40

So, even Yao Ming himself doesn’t know how much money Yao Ming has. His management team knows, but they won’t tell us. But there are no absolute secrets in this world. Even if it cannot be accurate, we are still willing to count money for Yao Ming based on rough standards.

Let’s talk about salary first. With the five-year US$76 million just signed (which should be discounted to more than 620 million yuan at the current exchange rate), plus the previous four-year US$18 million rookie contract (totaling 146 million yuan), you can fight in the NBA. Nine years after his death, Yao Ming can get a salary of 766 million yuan.

According to ESPN reporter Butcher, the author of Yao Ming's autobiography - six years later, Yao Ming can build a highway from his home to the Toyota Center.

The salary income is only a part of Yao Ming's total income. Another large part is advertising sponsorship revenue. We know that Yao Ming is very demanding in his choice of advertisements. Despite this, in the past three years, he has signed contracts with Apple Computer, VISA credit card and other merchants, and his total advertising sponsorship income has exceeded 20 million US dollars.

Ray Clark, president of the famous Arm Brokerage Consulting Company in Dallas, said: "Yao Ming's specialness allows him to hide business opportunities that no one else has."

A few days ago 5 After the new contract worth US$76 million per year was finalized, Zhang Mingji revealed that a large number of businesses wanted to sign with Yao Ming: "Due to our high requirements, not many have actually entered into substantive negotiations. There are only 20 or 30 companies. These companies include Many well-known multinational companies and famous international brands in the world "conservatively estimate that Yao Ming's advertising sponsorship income will exceed at least 80 million US dollars in the next five years.

Let’s not talk about Yao Ming’s life, let’s take a look at Yao Ming’s income in the past 9 years: salary of 94 million US dollars + advertising sponsorship of 90 million (of which 70 million is expected in the next 5 years) = 184 million US dollars.

How much can you put into your pocket?

There is a saying among rich people: Once you have enough money, it is no longer yours. Foreign tycoons such as Bill Gates and domestic tycoons such as Liu Yonghao have said similar things.

So how much money does Yao Ming have as his "own" money? We mean, the part that can be put into his pocket?

This requires deducting expenses. Yao Ming's expenses include: tax, according to the U.S. tax rate, Yao Ming should pay 43; pension, 10; pay to the Chinese Basketball Association, Shanghai Sports Bureau and Shanghai Oriental Club. In 2002, when Yao Ming had not been selected, Xin Lan became the era The Chinese Basketball Association and Shanghai Oriental Club tried to loot Yao Ming's income, but in the end, the "Yao Team" represented by Zhang Mingji successfully resisted this round of "robbery". Yao Ming later said in his autobiography : "The Chinese Basketball Association only took a small part of my income, but I don't think they deserve it." As for the Shanghai Sports Bureau and the Oriental Men's Basketball Club, they took away 8 million US dollars from Yao Ming's income at one time. That's a thing of the past.

In addition, Yao Ming's food, clothing, housing and transportation may account for 5-10% of his total income.

Yao Ming also has another expense, which is the portion deserved by the "Yao Team" agent team. According to relevant NBA regulations, the agent's brokerage fee is 4% of the player's contract amount.

After peeling off the layers, how much money can Yao Ming get? Take this new five-year contract of US$76 million, after deducting the above expenses, Yao Ming will finally get about US$35 million, which is approximately more than 280 million yuan.

For ordinary people, this is still an astronomical figure.

How does Yao Ming view money?

And how did the rich man named Yao Ming deal with these astronomical numbers?

This question reminds me of the day before he landed in the NBA in 2002, Yao Ming had a long chat with one of his media friends. There was such a conversation that I remember deeply - the friend asked him, what would he do? Won't you make some investments like other NBA stars? Yao Ming's answer was: "I don't dare to invest, I just want to open an Internet cafe. I can play and watch others play. No one under 18 is allowed in. All athletes will go back to bed after 22:00."

As Yao Ming, who is from Shanghai, is naturally not the kind of person who regards money as dirt, but he often doesn't care about money. Three years ago, Nike and Reebok competed for Yao Ming's sponsorship. Yao Ming ultimately chose Reebok instead of Nike. According to a person involved in the matter: "At the last moment of signing the agreement with Nike, Yao's team changed the text. A problem was found in a certain clause. It is still unclear whether this problem was intentional, but it caused Nike to lose Yao Ming, who had almost won it. The amount of the second contract offered by Nike to Yao Ming was almost the amount Yao Ming signed with Reebok. 2.5 times the contract amount."

When making the decision, Yao Ming said: "You can give me less money, but you must be honest with me."

Yao Ming's house on Lake Wenther in Houston is about 300 square meters and worth less than $600,000, which is incomparable to Wang Zhizhi's $3 million mansion in Los Angeles. Yao Ming's ride is just a BMW 745, while his teammate Tracy McGrady collects the car like a toy.

How to spend so much money?

How to spend so much money? Just like how much money Yao Ming has, this issue is also of concern to those of us who have nothing to do with it.

Will you buy a helicopter like your teammate Tracy McGrady? "Buy a helicopter? Oh my god, I haven't had this idea yet. I haven't reached the point where I can both drive and fly a plane." Yao Ming answered this question in a joint interview with reporters in Beijing on September 1.

“I really haven’t thought about how to spend it. Although my parents opened a restaurant in Houston, it was opened by my parents. All the money I make now is kept by them for me, and I am only responsible for making it. Good ball. If I only think about how to spend the money, then I think I will not be far away from retirement."

Yao Ming only said one way to spend it: "I will participate in some charity activities and donations. . Around September 22, I will go to Hong Kong to participate in an AIDS event; and there is a disaster in New Orleans right now, and many refugees have gone to Houston, and I will try my best to help them."

At least for now. , Yao Ming's method of spending money is: leaving some cash in his pocket and letting the rest lie quietly in the bank. So far, Yao Ming's investment has mainly been in the Nasdaq stock market in New York, and this investment has not relied on and utilized Yao Ming's huge influence.

"I know I have money, but I don't want to become cumbersome and unhappy because of this." Yao Ming said this a long time ago. (Liu Jing) ?

Yao Ming easily surpasses Beckham in salary

Yao Ming’s salary in the first year of his new contract is already close to the highest annual salary in European football today. According to "French Football" 》Data, the highest-paid football player in Europe now should be Frank Lampard of the upstart Premier League team Chelsea. His annual salary is approximately US$13.68 million. Incomes like Lampard's are rare in European football. Most of the big-name European superstars have annual salaries of less than 10 million US dollars. For example, Real Madrid superstars Zidane, Ronaldo and Beckham all earn 6.4 million euros. AC Milan's top scorer Shevchenko's annual salary is only about 5.2 million euros. Yao Ming's salary of US$12.5 million in the first year of his new contract only ranked 28th in the NBA in the 2006-07 season.

Yao Ming cannot make the top ten in terms of income

Among the top 10 highest-paid athletes in 2004 announced by Forbes magazine, 7 were from the United States, including NBA players. 3 places. Beckham overcame many American sports tycoons to rank fourth.

Statistics also show that, like most sports tycoons, "Beckham's salary from the club only accounts for a small share of his wealth, while he receives advertising remuneration from being the spokesperson for Adidas clothing, Pepsi-Cola, Gillette, etc." , is the main thing.

In this wealth ranking, Yao Ming ranks 43rd behind football star Zidane by a narrow margin.