Earnings reflect gross income and do not account for things like taxes and manager fees.

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That income and his career earnings are gross figures though and before Uncle Sam and his agents at IMG took their share.

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Various costs are subtracted from the revenues to calculate various progressively smaller measures of profit and loss: gross income, net income, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), taxable income, etc.

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