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> I am from the states, following up on one of my
> friends, that plays for the Hawks and I was wondering
> if you could tell me about the players' salaries.
> Like on my friends bio page it says he makes
> 4200-man yen. How much is that in American dollars?
> And what is the average amount that these players
> s make? Thank You.

"man" means 10,000, so 4200-man means 42,000,000 yen. If you calculate the exchange at $1 = 120 yen (which is not unreasonable in these uncertain times), then it'd be $350,000. That's per year, of course.

I'm not sure what the average is, but the highest paid Japanese player makes $6 million. I imagine that the average is somewhere below $1 million. Shuukan Baseball did an article on this just last year, but I don't have my back issues here with me in the States. Perhaps Westbay-san has it?

- Shuukan Baseball did an article on this just last year, but I don't have my back issues here with me in the States. Perhaps Westbay-san has it?

I have one better, this year's salaries. Querying my database, here's what I get:

Min	Max	Avg	Count
440	61,000	3812.7587	800

All values in units of man (10,000) yen.

Getting results of different range blocks would be nice, but I don't have a RedBrick data warehouse on my machine. So, a few queries does the same thing:

Salary Range	Count
440-500	63
501-600	79
601-700	42
701-800	49
801-900	29
901-1,000	35
1,001-1,200	48
1,201-1,400	49
1,401-1,700	41
1,701-2,200	41
2,201-2,800	42
2,801-3,500	39
3,501-4,500	47
4,501-5,500	32
5,501-7,000	42
7,001-9,000	40
9,001-13,000	30
13,001-20,000	36
20,001-61,000	16