Athletes Should Not Be Paid Than Athletes

In this website article written by “The Doctor Chris Mueller”, a featured columnist from Bleacher Report, he explores both sides when it comes to the question “Are athletes overpaid?” and talks about the

If an employee earned millions of dollars for a company and received little to no compensation, many issues would arise, possibly even a riot. In contrast, when this same dilemma comes about for a collegiate athlete, the only people who believe that these athletes deserve this money are the athletes themselves. The definition of a full-time job is commonly considered to be a 35-40-hour work week, and these everyday employees get paid, so why do college athletes who work over 40 hours for their sport not get paid (Edelman, Marc)? During recent years, there has been a great debate that has arisen over whether these athletes deserve to be paid for their hard work, rather than simply receive scholarship money that the athletes never see. Many spectators wish to preserve the amateurism of the sport, filled with athletes that play because of their love for the game, not because of a paycheck. On the other hand, there are a growing number of proponents who firmly believe that

When sports exploded in the 1900’s athletes were paid like regular working citizens. Most athletes had to work over the summer to keep their mortgages paid. In present day, professional athletes are dished out astronomical salaries in exchange for their play. Many of these athletes have the opportunity to be set for life within the first years of their contracts. Eighteen and nineteen year olds are given multi-million dollar contracts. While these athletes are getting paid these ridiculous amounts of money, we have millions of hard working public service members that are getting the tiniest fractions of some of these contracts. In comparison, “each basket

“Touchdown Patriots! 3, 2, 1! And the Patriots win the Superbowl!” Millions of pieces of confetti were falling on them, as if it were the money that they make every year. But wouldn’t you think that people, like doctors, would earn 5.15 million dollars for saving people’s lives every single day, and professional football players would make $189,000 - $258,000? It is actually the other way around. Professional athletes started to get paid for playing sports in the 1920’s, which is when people started to actually notice them, and they were paid, on average, 5,000 dollars a year. Now don’t get me wrong, getting paid to entertain people in fine. But today, they get paid 5.15 million dollars a year, just by playing sports. I think that might be going a little bit overboard. In my opinion, professional athletes get paid too much.

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

There are people in our society that help shape the future for the whole country but are only paid a fraction of what athletes are paid for playing a sport. For example, there are people like teachers that might help push those athletes in the right direction towards what fame they eventually achieve, but compared to those athletes they are paid a large amount of money less than those people. Also, there are jobs out there which are considered the highest paying jobs in our society, like medicine and law, but even those high paying jobs are not paid the amount that athletes are paid (Figueroa). The president, for example, has what is considered one of the most stressful job in the country but only receives five-hundred seventy thousand dollars total yearly. That includes their yearly salary of four hundred thousand dollars, a hundred thousand dollar travel account, a fifty thousand dollar annual expense account, and about twenty thousand dollars for entertainment. In comparison to the president, the average tight end in the National Football League makes about double that amount of money in one year (Lesko). In Floyd Mayweather’s fight against Alvarez, he had earned 41.5 million dollars just for that one fight (Arciniega). In the year 1989, Rickey Henderson had signed a twelve million dollar deal that was for four years, making him get three million dollars a year. Making $3 million a year

Imagine a perfect world where everyone gets paid based on their importance to society. Which profession would earn the most money? Professional athletes are one of the highest paid groups of people in the world. However, what do they actually give to society? The amount of money given to these athletes is far more than teachers, firefighters, police officers, and soldiers. Thus, professional athletes earn too much money.

A professional world known soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest paid athlete with earnings to be over 88 million dollars. Compared to the highest paid female soccer player earning roughly 2.8 million dollars. This is one of many massive wage gaps in the sporting. People debate the wage gaps of sports for males and females should be less as they have the same skills. People also believe that males sport competitors for some sports are getting paid way too much, “Their wages should be halved and even some extremely good sports people should have theirs quartered.” In basketball LeBron James a professional basketballer has a salary of 31 million dollars a season. as this is compared to the highest paid female basketballer Elena Delle Donne who earns 4 million dollars a season. Roger Federer another world know sports person as a tennis

Sweaty body, aching muscles, and uniforms. This is the daily life of an athlete. These incredible students devote their time and energy to entertaining their university and the entire country. The question is though, should, or should they not be paid? Athletes should not be payed to play; however, some say they should because the sport takes up so much of their time. In contrast, athletes on scholarship already receive a completely free college education; and others say athletes should not be payed to play because they receive free education from the University they attend.

In today’s society many will argue whether or not professional athletes are overpaid. In the present time athletes are being paid phenomenally large amounts of money for their entertainment. It is my claim that all professional athletes are overpaid because they do not offer society an essential function that improves or enhances our world in comparison to other professionals such as medical doctors, lawyers, and teachers. Society does not value entertainment enough to warrant such high salaries such as those of many professional athletes. There is no reason that these athletes should demand these tremendous amounts of money. This is why you have to put into question their reasoning for demanding

In conclusion, firefighters along with the rest of the people who saves lives do not get paid as much. Also, what makes athletes so deserving of their salary? Lastly, athletes get paid more than a hard-working person who has a full-time job does not get paid as much as an athlete does in his/her’s lifetime. Athletes in today’s time are overpaid compared to the amount that public services are

Athletes in the past did not always accumulate the wealth of today’s multimillionaire athletes. Although many hold resentments towards the high salaries professional athletes earn, the industry they work in their raises billions of dollars in revenue. In spite of the hard work and dedication of athletes, only a small percentage of the human population is physically and mentally capable of playing in professional sports leagues. It would be unjust to take money away from the athletes, only to give that money back to the sports executives who depend on their labor.

To understand why it is that athletes are deserving of their pay, one must first realize the odds that these millionaires battled against. According to the NCAA, there around 550,000 high school male basketball players in a given year. Of them, only 3 or so percent will even make it to continue playing at any collegiate level. From there, the odds only worsen. Only twelve out of every one-thousand collegiate players move on to ever make a single penny from playing the game they love. This roughly means that only three out of every ten-thousand high school basketball players will ever receive any sort of monetary sustainability for their efforts. Even further, the majority of those select few only get to play in minor leagues overseas that don’t exactly pay very generously. Note, also, that this doesn’t mean they’re in the pros for more than a year or two. Those men making millions you see on television aren’t just the best. They’re the very best of the best of the best.

The passages present a discussion about arguments concerning whether or not professional athletes are overpaid. This is an important debate since professional sports represents a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry. The two positions argue whether or not professional athletes should be paid the large yearly salaries they are paid. Both viewpoints have valid claims warranting consideration. For example, evidence suggests that people with far more important jobs are paid much less than professional athletes; in contrast, opposing evidence suggests that since professional athletes generally have short careers and must train very hard to build and maintain their skills, the higher salary is justified. While both sides of the issue have valid points, the viewpoint that professional athletes are not overpaid is the best-supported position, the position supported by the preponderance of the evidence cited in the passages. The strongest and best reasons supporting this position are that professional athletes must endure grueling and intensive training, they generally have short careers that often end in injury, and the amount that they are thought to be paid is often inflated. Accordingly, these reasons and opposing viewpoints will be discussed next.

There are athletes who do their best to master their regular event and they have a dream to enter the Olympic games. Not only athletes, there are artists who draw various paintings for more than 4 hours and everyone tries to find their own methods in order to make a new kind of painting that never existed before. Artists have to finish their own unique artwork while athletes have to compete with other amazing athletes all over the world. So, I disagree with the statement that governments should spend more money supporting the arts than supporting athletics such as an Olympic team because athletes are people like a member of the National Assembly and they live far away from their family to engross in their games and practices.