The world's highest paid athletes

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#1 Floyd Mayweather $105 M
#2 Cristiano Ronaldo $80 M
#3 LeBron James $72.3 M
#4 Lionel Messi $64.7 M
#5 Kobe Bryant $61.5 M
#6 Tiger Woods $61.2 M
#7 Roger Federer $56.2 M
#8 Phil Mickelson $53.2 M
#9 Rafael Nadal $44.5 M
#10 Matt Ryan $43.8 M
#11 Manny Pacquiao $41.8 M
#12 Zlatan Ibrahimovic $40.4 M
#13 Derrick Rose $36.6 M
#14 Gareth Bale $36.4 M
#15 Radamel Falcao $35.4 M
#16 Neymar $33.6 M
#17 Novak Djokovic $33.1 M
#18 Matthew Stafford $33 M
#19 Lewis Hamilton $32 M
#20 Kevin Durant $31.9 M
#21 Fernando Alonso $31 M
#22 Mahendra Singh Dhoni $30 M
#23 Dwyane Wade $29.9 M
#24 Carmelo Anthony $29.4 M
#25 Wladimir Klitschko $28 M
#26 Peyton Manning $27.1 M
#27 Amar'e Stoudemire $26.7 M
#28 Dale Earnhardt, Jr. $25.9 M
#29 Dwight Howard $25.5 M
#30 Cliff Lee $25.3 M
#31 Joe Mauer $24.8 M
#32 Miguel Cabrera $24.6 M
#33 Zack Greinke $24.5 M
#34 Maria Sharapova $24.4 M
#35 Derek Jeter $24.3 M
#35 Rory McIlroy $24.3 M
#37 Chris Paul $24.2 M
#37 CC Sabathia $24.2 M
#39 Prince Fielder $23.9 M
#40 Darrelle Revis $23.8 M
#41 Li Na $23.6 M
#42 Jimmie Johnson $23.5 M
#43 Wayne Rooney $23.4 M
#44 Sergio Aguero $23.3 M
#45 Usain Bolt $23.2 M
#45 Dirk Nowitzki $23.2 M
#47 Blake Griffin $23 M
#48 Alex Rodriguez $22.9 M
#48 Johan Santana $22.9 M
#50 Mark Teixeira $22.7 M
#51 Matt Kemp $22.6 M
#52 Joe Johnson $22.5 M



Note: for the NFL guys this also includes their onetime signing bonus that's skews their numbers.