Wow - that's a fair old whack of money going into your bank account - imagine if you knew that was going in every week for the next 3 years! This man knows what it feels like...

His name's John Terry.
He earns his money from sport by playing it.
He's an English footballer, and is the captain of the England National team.

Over the summer of 2007 during the off-season, he held contract negotiations with his club, and took a hardline stance, that unless he was paid the same as some others in the squad, he would leave.

The club had to decide whether he was too important a player to lose, against whether they were setting a precedent for others to follow. They folded, and he's now said to earn $270,000 every week. Bear in mind this is whether he actually plays or not!

If he doesn't play - that huge sum still goes into his account. If he plays, but plays badly, the money still goes in.

It's hard to actually imagine that kind of figure going into your account every