Match your Annual Salary with Lionel Messi, here is how many years it will take you to Earn His Salary

Lionel Messi is the highest paid footballer in the world and he  earns €20,800,000 per year. It would take him 2 or less than 2 minutes to earn your annual salary. Lionel Messi contract at Bacelona earns him around €450,000 each week and €20,800,000 per year while Ronaldo earns 18,200,000 per year.

BBC released a calculator today - which is part of their A Richer World season - to help people find out. So lets do some maths for those US and in Africa most richest country, Nigeria.

If you are in the US and your current salary of  @$60,000 a year @ $5,000 a month, it would take you 451 years to earn Lionel Messi  annual wage.  It would take him 22 minutes to earn your weekly salary. If you had started in the year 1564 you'd almost be finished.

If you in Nigeria, on your current salary of N480,000 a year @ N40,000 naira a month, it would take you 5270 years to earn Lionel Messi  annual wage. If you had started in the year 3255 BC you'd almost be finished.

On your current salary of N960,000 a year @ N80,000 a month, it would take you 2535  years to earn Lionel Messi  annual wage.  It would take him 4 minutes to earn your weekly salary. 
 
On your current salary of N1.4m a year @ N120,000 a month, would take you 1757 yearsto earn Lionel Messi's annual wage.  It would take him 6 minutes to earn your weekly salary. it . If you had started in the year 258 BC you'd almost be finished.
 
On your current salary of N2.4m a year @ N200,000 a month, it would take you 1054 years to earn Lionel Messi  annual wage. 

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