Monday, Apr. 19, 1999
Numbers
By Harriet Barovick, Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Lina Lofaro, Andrew Meier, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor
$28.01 Minimum wage received every month by Nike workers in Indonesia before their pay raise last week
$1.68 Amount of pay increase
$139.99 Recommended retail price for a pair of Nike Air Max sneakers
1,351 Number of U.S. residents who earn more than $200,000 a year and avoid paying any tax, thanks to tax-exempt interest
$439.5 million Amount of tax-exempt income that represents
63 Number of new, 600-student elementary schools that could be built for that amount
9.7% Increase in the price of the average Major League Baseball ticket since last season, to $14.91
23.5% Average ticket-price rise for New York Mets fans--the largest increase in the league
$9.25 Cost of one beer and one hot dog at Shea Stadium, the Mets' home turf
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Foot Locker, the Bond Buyer, the Washington Times, the Team Marketing Report