Bolt runs and earns fast

Usain Bolt does everything fast.  He runs fast and he earns money really fast.

In five days in Berlin Bolt, he made almost J$30 million. Two individual wins in world record time equals US$320,000 plus about US$16,000 from his share of the 4x100metre relay. That’s about US$336,000.

Not bad for a less than a week’s work. Work here is defined as actual days when he performed on the track.

How many Jamaican individuals earn at that rate? I can’t even think of many companies that earn money as quickly as that.

On Thursday, without doing anything Bolt earned an additional J$8.9 million or another US$100,000. When you factor in his appearance fee estimated at about US$250,000 per meet, Bolt would have earned almost US$800,000 after the world championships for three days’ work.

All together that works out to about US$1.2 million or about J$107 million for eight days’ work! That’s J$13 million a day, an incredible rate of earning.