Most Depressing Figure of the Day: What a Jersey Shore Cast Member Makes Each Year

Let’s begin this Thursday evening with an utterly depressing figure after which your night can only improve: in Forbes’s first-ever, completely necessary ranking of top-earning D.J.’s, the magazine reveals that Paul DelVecchio, better known as D.J. Pauly D on the MTV reality show Jersey Shore, has segued his stint dodging “grenades” (ugly females)/selling T-shirts/getting drunk on the Jersey boardwalk into an unnervingly lucrative career for someone who became famous for dodging “grenades”/selling T-shirts/getting drunk on national television. But how unnervingly lucrative? By Forbes’s calculations, DelVecchio, who is admittedly one of the more tolerable cast members on the intolerable MTV series, made $11 million over the past year. During that time, he played more than 130 gigs at an average of $40,000 a piece and opened for Britney Spears during her Femme Fatale tour. Adding to his income: his $100,000/episode paychecks for Jersey Shore, a clothing line (Dirty Couture), a tanning lotion (Pauly D Bronze Beats), and residencies at the Hard Rock in Vegas and Harrah’s in Atlantic City, the latter of which were announced early this year.