A Detroit public school teacher's pay would make even the likes of Bill Gates and Donald Trump envious.

Thanks to a computer glitch, the teacher earned $26 million an hour.

She was paid $7.9 million before taxes and retirement savings for 18 minutes of work. The teacher, who wasn't identified, received $4,015,624.80 after taxes.

Apparently, someone alerted the school district earlier this month, and it wasn't the teacher.

The error occurred when a clerk entered an employee number in the hourly wage field for the teacher's wage adjustment check.

The district's payroll software didn't catch the mistake.

It has since installed a program to flag any paycheck exceeding $10,000. The money was returned after six days.

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