Gritty's salary might make you rethink your career choice

Driving the news: The Philadelphia Flyers mascot makes about $250,000 a year, nearly as much as Josh Shapiro, the nation's highest-paid governor.

• Gritty's handsome package still lags behind mascots like Denver's Rocky the Mountain Lion ($625K), Atlanta's Harry the Hawk ($600K) and Chicago's Benny the Bull ($400K).
• But it's enough to make the Phillie Phanatic, who reportedly makes about $200K, demand a raise.

How it works: Online gambling reviewer, GamblingSites, collected mascot salary information from sports job boards and media outlets, including Sports Illustrated.

• Then it compared those wages to those detailed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for various local jobs, including teachers, firefighters and plumbers.

The other side: We reached out to the Flyers for a gut-check on Gritty's payroll records. They did not respond.

• Yes, but: It's not like this orange-faced mascot has presidential ambitions, so we're not expecting him to release his annual tax returns.

The bottom line: Looks like we're in the wrong business.