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Celebrity spending power
Are celebrities overpaid?

It's Super Star Sunday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rewards its brightest stars -- and a few novas -- with that golden statuette known as Oscar. Along with it come more fame and more fortune. Fame is hard to quantify but fortune is a little easier. to measure. Choose one of the top film stars from Bankrate.com's list of top-grossing box-office stars, and see how ordinary purchases affect the bank accounts of Hollywood's biggest stars, compared to an average $30,000-a-year Joe or Jane.

For instance, a new car that costs you $20,000 is equivalent to Tom Cruise scraping together $24.

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Income is based on salary per film, using published reports and industry sources including Forbes, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Huffington Post, Entertainment Weekly and Internet Movie Data Base.
 
Select a celebrity:
Income: $15,000,000 a year
Product
At this price*
Seems to cost:
* Relative price of products


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