This is what people ill-tempered when they talk about the new wealth gap between the rich and the wonderful rich. Americans may be trying to keep up with the Joneses, but the merely succulent are trying to keep up with the Teppers.
To really understand how much the hedge funders collect, you need to break it down, by days and hours. The top four hedge funders realized more than $3.5 million per day last year — assuming they travailed all 365 days. And assuming that they worked 24 hours a day, they each have a claimed more than $145,000 per hour, or $2,400 per second.
Put another way, the top hedge funders received more than twice as much in one hour as the average American makes in a year.
Here is how much the top five hedge hard cash managers made each day and hour last year.