How much does one of the NBA’s biggest stars make in a minute, compared to someone we trust with our childrens’ future? You don’t even want to know.
Every minute, Kobe Bryant makes $162.55. By comparison, a family doctor–what most of us consider a decent occupation!–makes $1.35. In that same amount of time, an elementary teacher makes $0.43 (yes, forty three cents). And a minimum-wage worker pulls in just over a dime–a mere $0.12.
For CNNMoney, designer BÃ¥rd Edlund created a fantastic animation to visualize this disparity. But rather than turning to stacks of gold or even bar graphs, Edlund rendered the data in circles. Which may not sound all that radical–but in data visualization, the area (or value) of circles can be difficult to compare.
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