You might call this notice the accountant's equivalent of an earnings alert.
On Wednesday, just as Google was passing the Motorola hot potato, Facebook hit the equivalent of an earnings grand slam.
The bank reported net income of $6.8 billion £4.44 billion) and earnings per share of $1.68 £1.100), but said underlying earnings were $5.4 billion £3.55 billion), equivalent to earnings per share of $1.32 £0.866).
Again, the relationship is estimated with a dependent variable of the log of the ratio of income to employment that is equivalent to earnings per worker.
But he told the BBC's Today programme that the maximum contribution, equivalent to 8% of earnings, would not produce sufficient pension income to maintain an employee's standard of living in retirement, particularly those on higher salaries.
The equivalent in terms of earnings, taking income tax into account, would make it worth £2,190.50 for a basic rate taxpayer, and £2,920.67 for a higher rate taxpayer.
He was paid about $80, the equivalent of several months' earnings.
In the case of Popov, we can only wonder about the musical equivalent of lost future earnings: what could he have become?
For example, individuals do not get tax relief on contributions greater than the equivalent of their annual earnings.
