From a Website:
"Have you ever wondered how your take-home pay measures up to some local sports celebrities?"
No, but I have wondered about the grammar of this sentence. This sentence is problematic because it compares "take-home pay" to "local sports celebrities." You can't compare a rate of pay to a person. Now I know that the 100% grammatical version might sound a bit fuddy-duddy, but it's better:
"Have you ever wondered how your take-home pay measures up to that of some local sports celebrities?"
You could also write this (note the apostrophe at the end):
"Have you ever wondered how your take-home pay measures up to some local sports celebrities'?"
Apples to apples:
"take-home pay" compared to "that of some local sports celebrities"
or
"take-home pay" compared to "some local sports celebrities'"
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