Travel agents earn about 10 percent on American business.

Typically, a magazine earns about 75 percent of its income from advertising.

The result was that stocks earned less than Treasury bonds about 20 percent of the time.

On the pro side, they earn about 15 percent more than workers employed elsewhere in the factory building.

British orchestra musicians earn about 60 percent less than their American colleagues.

An investment of $5,000 in an index fund, earning about 10 percent a year since 1975, would have grown to $50,000 or so by now.

At the end of the late 1970s, women earned about 82 percent as much each hour as men with a similar profile.

Its mail-order business, the next largest at nearly $8 million in annual sales, is expected to earn about 5 percent.

Younger women entering the work force, however, earn about 86 percent of what men do, the report said.

Our record in the past five years is we've earned about 12 percent a year.