I guess it's good to be king

Rush Limbaugh has quite a list of accomplishments to his credit:

- Completely changed and invigorated the entire AM dial and redefined talk radio (for starters)
- Hosts the most listened to radio show in the history of broadcasting
- Has conducted interviews on a variety of issues, obviously mainly with politicians, including multiple interviews with the president and vice president

He is on the air for three hours a day and according to the Drudge Report, currently makes about $38 MILLION a year, that's right a YEAR. If you don't count the days he takes off, which I figure come out to about four weeks a year, that comes out to about $57,000 an hour. Not too bad. Of course there is prep time in there as well, maybe another three hours a day (probably not, because he has "staff"), so that would bring his total down to $26,400 an hour.

But that was his old contract. :)

According to Drudge he just signed his new contract. It's good through 2016, that's 8 years at... $400 million. Drudge also mentioned that this included a NINE FIGURE signing bonus. NOT BAD.

That would put his hourly at... over $34,700 an hour. Nice.

According to Drudge, "Earnings now pace him ahead of the annual salaries for network news anchors: Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer — combined!"

I guess it's good to be king of the EIB Network.

Rush on.