Incredibly, each of the five athletes earns over a million pounds a week

How long does it take to earn a million pounds? Here everything depends on your profession. A nurse in an English hospital would have to work for more than thirty years to collect such money. The lawyer would have to save up his fees for almost 17 years. Even top managers of large firms would have to spend a whole decade collecting such a sum.

"Fast" sports earnings

At a time when people of different professions are often short of a lifetime for collecting a million pounds, an elite sportsman earns that amount literally in a week.

The research company "Express Market" processed the data of the Forbes list, which concerned the incomes of athletes for 2016, and determined how many days it would take them to earn another seven-figure sum. This accounted for not only payments on contracts, but also advertising fees, so the amount is simply huge.

Take, for example, tennis player Maria Sharapova, who in 2016 was removed from international competitions because of a positive test for doping. In 2016, a Russian woman for advertising with her participation earned a million pounds in every 167.5 days.

Among the athletes, the most "fast" in making money was Ronda Rauzi, who performs in mixed martial arts. To earn the next million, it took an average of about 32 days.

Which of the athletes earn the fastest?

In the top 5 for quick earnings of a million pounds, only men entered, who introduced three sports.

In the fifth place driver Sebastian Vettel. Four-time winner of "Formula 1" in the "Ferrari" spent an average of 7.96 days to replenish his bank account next million.

A little less time spent on it is his colleague in the race Lewis Hamilton. A famous athlete earns a million pounds every 7.47 days.

The only representative of American football on this list, Joe Flaccco of Baltimore Ravens, in 2016 improved his financial position by seven-figure sums every 7,23 days, earning about 140 thousand pounds a day.

The best forward of "Barcelona", Argentine Lionel Messi, spends on earnings a million less than a week - 5.96 days, this corresponds to 170,000 per day.

And the most "quick-earning" sportsman in 2016 was the newly-made European champion, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo. Sport brought him not only the world fame and love of fans, but also enormous earnings. According to Forbes, the forward of Madrid "Real" replenishes his account for a million every 5.68 days.