Athletes Paid

For example teaching is one of the most important jobs in the U.S. The impact teachers have on their kids and what they teach them is one of the most important things in the world because the future and the future economy relies on the education of its youth. Yet teachers make a significant amount less than athletes. To show the significance, each basket Kobe Bryant scores in a game is equivalent to the average salary of a school teacher. The President, one of the most powerful people in our country and someone who makes decisions that change and impact the world daily gets paid $400,000 a year. An undrafted rookie beginning his new and not so very bright professional career in major league baseball makes way over that amount. Additionally firefighters, police officers, and doctors risk their lives everyday to save others for a fraction of what athletes make. Lawyers, business men, and astronauts are people who try and change the world for the better by exploring new ideas and the unknown and are also paid a fraction of what athletes are. A high paid type of doctor makes just over $500,000 a year, a lawyer with over a decade of experience is paid up to $170,000 a year, the highest paid astronaut is paid $107,000 a year, and the average an above mediocre business man is paid $70,000 a year. To compare these salaries to athlete’s, the average salary that teams in the

Although Athletes entertain us all and provide us with something to look forward to, their paychecks are too big for what they do. There are millions of people who are injured in the military or have illnesses that need that money to help them recover ,but instead we give the money to people who entertain us.

Imagine a world in which you make about $15,000 to $20,000 dollars less than your favorite athletes, like Lebron James or Kobe Bryant. When you put it into perspective, it could be a pretty small gap when you see how much athletes in the U.S make today. The issue of extreme salaries for professional athletes is staggering and outrageous has been going for many years and continues to come up with arguments about how money should be spent not only by the public but by the government as well. On average the normal American citizen makes above $46,000 a year as of 2014 while in 2012 the average salary of all the national sports associations athletes was $2.6 million dollars a year and has most steadily risen in the past three years. This really brings to the forefront certain question like, what are our country’s values and what do we really stand for when teachers, doctors and civil service jobs are the lowest paid jobs when you compare them to

A huge topic that we as a society discuss and talk about is why do athletes get paid so much and why do they get paid so much compared to the people serving in our armed forces? Why do athletes get paid by millions and the people that are serving in armed forces get paid the salary of 32,000 dollars a year and there are basketball players that get paid to put a ball through a net, and they are making millions of dollars for doing so little and contributing to a team, but it's not one player that’s making millions it's a whole team and there contracts can range from 1 million to 45 million dollars, over a term of years that can range from 1- 6 years. But why does an athlete that contributes nothing to society other than

It is perfectly acceptable to demand CEO’s of a Fortune 500 company to pay for student’s college education or for healthcare, but when professional athletes are fairly compensated for their work they are ridiculed. There should not be this hypocrisy in the media and in people’s thinking. Athletes play for franchises that are worth billions. The NFL team with the highest net worth is the Dallas Cowboys at $4.2 billion and is owned by Jerry Jones who has a net worth of $5.6 billion. In the MLB the New York Yankees are estimated at $3.7 billion and the New York Nicks are the highest NBA team at $3.3 billion (Investopedia). If the athletes are paid less than they currently are, then the money would simply be kept by the owners and team

Again, many professional athletes get paid millions of dollars. But, some people think that these athletes don’t deserve that money at all. And that is an issue. On page 25 of Scope Magazine’s article, Are Athletes Overpaid?, Mackenzie Carro writes “No one can deny that LeBron James gets paid a lot of money-but no one can deny that he hasn’t earned it either”,

First and foremost, pro athletes should get paid less money than they already do. According to Bahgat, “In today’s society, one should be paid according to the jobs economic importance and their value to society” (Bahgat). Additionally, Firefighters and Police Officers get paid a fraction of sports athletes and they risk their lives everyday helping us. “Furthermore, police officers, firefighters, and doctors, save lives while risking their own for a fraction of what sports stars make” (Bahgat 1). In addition, there are people that can’t even afford food for their families and athletes are getting paid $100 million plus. In today’s society money could be spent in a better way than paying pro athletes

Did you know that some professional athletes get paid up to ten million dollars? Yes, some athletes actually get paid as high as thirty million depending on the sport. Sometimes all of that money could just be bonuses. Most athletes get paid for insane reasons and most aren't just scoring. For example, most NFL players get paid for the merchandise or ticket sales! These players should get paid this much they worked hard to get there, most people can't do what they do, and people enjoy watching them play these sports.

People who risk their lives don’t even get paid as much as the pros. For instance, firemen, nurses, and soldiers save lives and the soldiers even go as far as to risk their lives and don’t even make as much as them in a LIFETIME! Lebron james makes infinitely more then those people do. He makes at least, or over, 71 million dollars a year. I can’t even fathom such a massive amount of money. Even doctors don’t get paid as much as he does, and they actually save lives sometimes. Teachers work real hard to take care and educate kids with no extra benefit, and the special ed teachers get it the worst. It’s unfair to the people that work twice as hard as they do. If they play a game or not, they get paid regardless. Oil field workers don’t get paid as much either. They work physically hard for minimum pay. Pro athletes don’t have to worry about bills, too. They can live, or do live, without a care in the world. Everyone else lines from paycheck to pay to paycheck. There isn’t enough money in the world. There is a lot, perhaps even millions, obviously, two-income families.

(Hays) These athletes should not be getting paid more than someone's who is saving lives, performing surgery, or even running our country. The athletes are only paid this amount of money because of the people and fans who continue to go out and support the athletes. If you are ever wondering why your food or drink is so expensive or the ticket to get in is expensive it is because you are paying the athletes

Professional athletes get paid tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars every day while some people get athletes daily payment in a whole year and most likely work harder than athletes to get it. Athletes are overpaid because most people go to college, have long hours and work harder to get their money, whereas athletes don’t have to go to college, don’t have long days, and don’t work as hard to get the money they have. What I’m trying to tell you is that there is a really big inequality in money, it’s not fair. And we should do something about it.

When compared to salary for soldiers or teachers, professional athletes are overpaid in spite of the fact that they can negatively influence our youth. So, professional athletes get paid too much. For the little they do for the economy and as much as what soldiers and teachers do, they deserve a higher salary. The youth also is not benefited by them, but they are benefited from these soldiers and teachers. If we don’t realize the issue about these athlete’s pay, our economy will slowly start to become more uneducated and underpaid and will not have a problem with

The first reason of my two is that athletes are only paid as much because it is us that pay them. We decide how much cash that an athlete makes every time we buy a ticket to their games,or a jersey with their names on the back. The people who watch the athletes are the ones that decide their paycheck.

Do you really think that athletes deserve to make more money than the nurses of this country!? Did you know that athlete’s salaries are up to $56 million a year? Yet Barack Obama-the president of the U.S- only makes $400,000! Do you realize what this means? It says something terrible about our society. We prefer entertainment over safety. Many athletes are paid millions of dollars. Some people think these athletes don’t deserve their money, but others do. This has been a problem that has been on and off. Never really solved. Did athletes deserve their money? Yes or no? Most likely it will never be cleared!

Many professional athletes and entertainers earn large sums of money for telling jokes, throwing a football, swinging a bat, and shooting a basketball. The people that drive trucks, save lives, and serve in the military don’t get paid as much as they do. They suffer more than the professional athletes and entertainers do too.