What we can buy: A gallon of milk ($3.89)
Percentage of salary: .009%
Equivalent cost to Warren Buffett: "A five-bedroom, five-bath home with over 5,000 square feet on the seventh and eighth fairways of the National Golf Club course, a gated community," according to The New York Times ($900,000)


What we can buy: Maxim subscription ($10)
Percentage of salary: 0.023162%
Equivalent cost to Warren Buffett: A 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl ($2,316,200)


What we can buy: Lap dance ($20)
Percentage of salary: 0.04632%
Equivalent cost to Warren Buffett:  An island in the Bahamas  ($4,632,000)


What we can buy: Halo 3 for the Xbox 360 ($60)
Percentage of salary: 0.13897%
Equivalent cost to Warren Buffett: Hydra the Revenge roller coaster at Dorney amusement park in Pennsylvania ( $13,897,000)


What we can buy: 4 GB iPod Nano ($150)
Percentage of salary: 0.34742%
Equivalent cost to Warren Buffett: Saddam Hussein's old yacht ($34,742,000)


What we can buy: PlayStation 3 ($399)
Percentage of salary: 0.92415%
Equivalent cost to Warren Buffett: A-Rod for three years ($92,415,000)


What we can buy: MacBook ($1099)
Percentage of salary: 2.54545%
Equivalent cost to Warren Buffett: A 40-story tower in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, with "a major four-star, 243-room hotel, 77 residential condominium units, and 26,000 square feet of retail space." ($254,545,000)


What we can buy: 2008 Ford Focus ($14,695)
Percentage of salary: 34.0359%
Equivalent cost to Warren Buffett: The National Hockey League. Yeah, the whole league ($3,403,590,000)


What we can buy: An average home, according to the National Association of Realtors ($201,100)
Percentage of salary: 470%
What he can buy: He could take a shot at snatching up Yahoo from under Microsoft's nose ($46,577,880,700)