WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pickings
    n 1: the act of someone who picks up or takes something; "the
         pickings were easy"; "clothing could be had for the taking"
         [syn: pickings, taking]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "pickings":
   blackmail, boodle, booty, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit,
   dividends, earnings, filthy lucre, gain, gains, get, gettings,
   gleanings, graft, gross, gross profit, haul, hoard, hot goods,
   income, interest, killing, loot, lucre, makings, neat profit, net,
   net profit, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks,
   perquisite, plunder, pork barrel, prize, proceeds, profit, profits,
   public till, public trough, rake-off, receipts, return, returns,
   spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods,
   store, swag, take, take-in, till, wealth, winnings