Thirty months. Sixteen point two million dollars. That’s more than half a million dollars per month. Details of a Halliburton contract in Iraq, you say? Nope. It’s the amount of money Rahm Emanuel made working as an investment banker in the scant two and a half years between leaving the Clinton White House and going to Congress last year as the representative from Illinois’ 5th district.

According to a recruiting executive quoted in the article, that salary figure puts Emanuel in the top 3-5% of all investment bankers in the country during that period of time. Not bad for a guy with zero investment banking experience: