If you translate all his earned money into dollars at the rate of 2017, it turns out that the multiple champion of the NBA in the Chicago Bulls earned 1.85 billion dollars.

In addition to the salary of a professional basketball player and numerous awards, a large part of his fortune, Jordan received through advertising contracts.

The second place in the rating of the American edition was taken by the golfer Tiger Woods, who earned about $ 1.7 billion. He also mainly received money from advertising contracts.

More than a billion earned two more golfer - third place Arnold Palmer $ 1.4 billion, who died in September 2016, and Jack Nicklaus $ 1.2 billion.

The fifth line of the rating was taken by German racing driver Michael Schumacher, who earned about one billion.

Also in the top ten highest paid athletes included British football player David Beckham (800 million), American boxer Floyd Mayweather (785 million) and American basketball player Shakil O'Neill (735 million).

As previously reported, "УРА-Информ", authoritative American magazine Forbes named the highest-paid musicians of the world in 2017. The rating was led by American rapper Sean Combs, better known as Diddy.