1. When he was 11 Bill Cosby earned about $ 9.00 per week shining shoes, setting up vegetable stands at a grocery store, and dusting and scrubbing a drugstore. Source
2. Bill Cosby went to Temple University on an athletic scholarship.
3. The New York Giants once offered Bill Cosby $ 13,000 a year to play football. He declined saying,“ I wasn’ t going to let them kill me for $ 13,000.00, no sir.”
4. Bill Cosby once worked as a shoe repair apprentice. He also tended bar for $ 5 a week plus tips.
5. Bill Cosby was once paid $ 3 a night to carry the“ king” in a play onto the stage and another $ 2 to stay on the stage holding a fan.
6. After his bartending job and while still attending Temple University Cosby got a job for $ 16 a night telling jokes at a night club.
7. Cosby’ s next night club job paid him $ 60 a week.
8. While he was fine tuning his act, his income was hit and miss.“ Some weeks no money came in. Some weeks the take varied from a two-hundred dollar high to a seventy-five dollar one-nighter low”.
9. In 1962 Cosby received his largest weekly paycheck to date: $ 400. He asked for it in cash, got it in $ 5 bills, and threw it all into the air in his hotel room.
10. By early 1963 he was earning up to $ 500 a week. TQR
10 Financial and Career Facts About Comedian Bill Cosby
1. When he was 11 Bill Cosby earned about $ 9.00 per week shining shoes, setting up vegetable stands at a grocery store, and dusting and scrubbing a drugstore. Source
2. Bill Cosby went to Temple University on an athletic scholarship.
3. The New York Giants once offered Bill Cosby $ 13,000 a year to play football. He declined saying,“ I wasn’ t going to let them kill me for $ 13,000.00, no sir.”
4. Bill Cosby once worked as a shoe repair apprentice. He also tended bar for $ 5 a week plus tips.
5. Bill Cosby was once paid $ 3 a night to carry the“ king” in a play onto the stage and another $ 2 to stay on the stage holding a fan.
6. After his bartending job and while still attending Temple University Cosby got a job for $ 16 a night telling jokes at a night club.
7. Cosby’ s next night club job paid him $ 60 a week.
8. While he was fine tuning his act, his income was hit and miss.“ Some weeks no money came in. Some weeks the take varied from a two-hundred dollar high to a seventy-five dollar one-nighter low”.
9. In 1962 Cosby received his largest weekly paycheck to date: $ 400. He asked for it in cash, got it in $ 5 bills, and threw it all into the air in his hotel room.
10. By early 1963 he was earning up to $ 500 a week. TQR
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