I mentioned to my En 12 class today that a good editor is worth her weight in gold. Then, remembering that gold is over $1000 an ounce, I realized I surely am not paying adequately for my editing services. I decided I’d better calculate it out.
Gold is $1690 Canadian (FYI that’s $1770 US) per ounce today, Sept 10,2012.
There are 16 ounces in a pound.
Round number of 200 lbs body weight multiplied by 16 is 3200 ounces.
3200 ounces multiplied by $1690 gold price is approximately $5.4 million.
Plainly, until book sales improve dramatically, I can no longer afford an editor.
Shawn L. Bird 
And if that’s her rate of pay you can bet the word ‘Diet’ won’t be in her volcabulary from now on.There will come a day when she’ll be paid by putting gold on a scale until she balances it out and you’ll find there’s no gold left.
I have to say, if I were being paid by the pound, it would be some compensation for how stubborn the excess pounds are about staying around against my will!!