Amount American employers lost during the week leading up to Super Bowl XL because workers were distracted by the big game's hype, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.: $780 million

Amount employees lost in unproductive wages on the Monday following the Super Bowl as workers discussed the game, the commercials, and the halftime show: $156 million

Source: Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Contact James Pedderson at (312) 332-5790 or e-mail jamespedderson@challengergray.com.

Rank of New York City, Miami and Los Angeles as the "highest risk" cities in the United States for e-commerce fraud (orders from these areas being the most likely to be fraudulent, that is made with stolen credit cards or other fraudulent payment), according to the annual online fraud survey undertaken by CyberSource Corp.: 1, 2, 3

Rank of Nigeria, China and Indonesia as the "highest risk" countries for e-commerce fraud: 1, 2, 3

Source: CyberSource Corp. Contact Bruce Frymire at (650) 965-6042 or e-mail bfrymire@cybersource.com.

Percentage of workers who say they're going to look for a new job in the next three months, according to a survey by Salary.com: 65

Percentage who say it's because they're underpaid: 57

Percentage of those workers who say they're underpaid that are actually underpaid when compared to what most companies pay for similar work: 19

Percentage who are overpaid: 17

Source: Salary.com. Contact Dan Malachowski at (781) 237-2441 ext. 4 or e-mail dmalachowski@salary.com.

Percentage of e-mail worldwide that is spam according to a survey by Ipswitch: 57

Source: Ipswitch. Contact Laurie Klausner at (781) 676-5794 or e-mail lklausner@ipswitch.com.

Percentage of dog owners who say they would work longer hours if they were allowed to bring their dogs to work, according to a survey by Dogster and Simply Hired: 66

Percentage who say they would take a pay cut to bring their dogs to work: 32

Source: Simply Hired. Contact Kay Luo at (650) 254-9000 ext. 119 or e-mail press@simplyhired.com.

Average annual household spending in the United States, according to latest data (2003) from the Census Bureau: $40,820

Amount of that spending money that went toward housing: $13,430

Amount that went toward transportation: $7,780

Amount that went toward food: $5,340

Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Contact Mike Bergman at (301) 763-3030 or e-mail pio@census.gov.

Percentage of single adults who say it is the man who should pick up the check on a first date, according to a survey by StrategyOne for Starbucks: 42

Percentage who say it should be the person who arranged the date: 34

Percentage who say split it: 17

Percentage who say the woman should: 0

Source: StrategyOne Edelman -- Starbucks Account. Contact Frank Goldberg at (212) 819-4826 or e-mail frank.goldberg@edelman.com.

Percentage of Americans who own stocks independent of a 401(k) who have at some point decided not to purchase stock in a company because they believed it had questionable ethics, according to a study from ethics and compliance management provider LRN: 50

Percentage of Americans who have at some point decided not to purchase products or services from a company because of questionable ethics: 70

Source: LRN. E-mail Kathleen Brennan at KBrennan@lrn.com.

Percentage of U.S. employee-benefit specialists who say controlling health care benefit costs is a top-five priority as an overall total-rewards concern, according to a survey by Deloitte Consulting LLP: 91

Percentage who say the need to provide total-rewards programs that attract and retain talent is a top-five priority as an overall total-rewards concern: 69

Source: Deloitte -- Employee Benefits. Contact Britton McMullian at (404) 220-1334 or e-mail bmcmullian@deloitte.com.

Percentage of consumers who have switched to a new drugstore who say they did so because of high prices, according to a survey by BIGresearch: 21

Percentage who say they switched because the old store was in an inconvenient location: 21

Percentage who say they switched because of poor customer service: 14

Percentage who say they switched because of unhelpful pharmacists: 7

Source: BIGresearch. Contact Phil Rist at (614) 846-0146 or e-mail phil@bigresearch.com.

Idle thought

"It does not require many words to speak the truth." -- Chief Joseph, Native American leader