How much your favourite fictional heroes actually earn

So how much does James Bond pull down to afford those fancy cocktails? Business site Bizdaq.com have done the maths and worked out how much your favourite characters from movies and TV would actually make in the real world…

Private detection is an appallingly paid profession. No wonder you don't see many of them around. Or is that just because they're so good at hiding?

Driving a cab in New York is not the best-paid job in the world. but it's not exactly minimum wage. No need for him to cut his own hair, really.

An advertising executive can expect to make a good £92k a year, it seems. We'd expect a healthy bonus package too, for the guy who invented the "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" ad.

We can all agree that Pawnee, Indiana's most determined public servant is definitely worth more than that.

Obviously Walter's income is not restricted to his job as a high-school chemistry teacher, but this is apparently the salary he could expect for that role. Plus a few million on the side cooking meth.

Apart from the bankruptcy, he was making okay money as a regional sales manager for paper company Dunder Mifflin.

Hard to be precise about this as space-haulage doesn't exist as a job yet. But going by her rank, as a Lieutenant in the US Army she'd be making around £60-65k. Would that go up in the private sector? We just don't know how generous Weyland-Yutani's remuneration package is.

You'd think a news anchor would be on more than this, but remember he's only a local news guy. San Diego isn't New York.

As a Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve, 007 would apparently be making a lot more than we thought military types did. Which explains how he can afford such good tailoring. Plus they probably chuck him a few quid on the sly for his espionage activities, and he gets a company car.

Science pays. If you've got what it takes to be a senior Theoretical Physicist, then go for it, we say. You can earn more than James Bond.

As a professor of paleontology, Ross can apparently expect to be clearing a lot more than most of the academics we know. We thought Chandler was the wealthy one.

Ah, that's why we went into journalism. The editor of Runway was allegedly based on Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue. Who gets paid a lot.