Professional Athletes Should Be Paid

Professional athletes in the United States are given extremely substantial contracts and lucrative endorsement deals and it has been argued that their salaries should be reduced to smaller wages but others say they are paid accordingly. The argument that athletes are overpaid not only exists in the United States but also all over the world. Most countries however do not have the variety of major sports that the U.S. has. When athletes are being paid millions of dollars each year, it raises an important discussion. This discussion is about how we value and compensate athletes and whether or not their salary is too much. This also leads to an argument asking if American priorities are altered by the significant difference of athletes

There has been many different arguments discussing whether or not college athletes should be paid or not. I’m not saying that any of them are exactly correct, however, in my opinion, they should. College athletes have put thousands of hours in their youth to get to where they are, and they don’t make a single dollar. The most money that a college athlete can make is in the form of scholarships to their university and through working their own jobs which none of them have time for. For me, I believe that college athletes should be paid because they spent their whole lives to get to where they are and because the student-athletes bring in tons of money for the schools.

I have decided to research whether a collegiate athlete should be compensated for perform for his or her respective college or university. It is a highly controversial topic within my field of study because of the different views athletic authorities, administrators, athletes, alumni and future graduates have on the subject. According to "Pay to Play: Should College Athletes be Paid?", collegiate student-athletes may spend more than 40 hours a week practicing, leaving little time to keep up with academic commitments (Birkenes 4-5). Majority of their time is spent on the field or hard wood, making

Football is an extremely rough sport; according to Sportsters.com, “football players put their life on the the line every day as they risk life threatening injuries such as concussions, broken limbs, heart-attacks, paralyzation and even death.” Another interesting point is that colleges and college coaches earn millions of dollars on the backs of the athletes while the players themselves are not authorized to receive one dime for their work. Therefore, if teenage athletes take such life threatening risks on a daily basis, they should at least earn a paycheck while doing so, and if the coaches and colleges

I chose the topic about if I think that professional athletes should get paid more than teachers, doctors, firefighter or law enforcement.

Do athletes/performers get paid too much for what they do? In this situation, I am for the athletes side. Athletes/performers get paid based on how well they are doing in that certain activity, so I really don't think it's unfair or that they are getting paid too much money. Athletes/performers bring a lot of money in, so they should also get paid for everything they do. TIt's also their job they signed up for that specific occupation, and when they get a job they are supposed to get paid for what they do.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The sounds of bullets shatter the ears of every soldier on the battlefield. Soldiers are put through rigorous training just to come home and get paid $4,445-5,690 a month, while Nikola Pekovic, a professional NBA player, is injured for the rest of the season and is making 4.9 million dollars to do nothing. Professional athletes make too much money because they don’t donate enough, their skill are not worth what they make, and sports don’t contribute enough value to society.

The star player on the soccer team, slowly, walks not trying to win the game. No matter what the score is he knows he will revive a shiny trophy at the end of the game. With different effort, the player could improve and turn into an even better player. Recently, there has been debates over whether kids should receive participation trophies. I believe that there should be no more undeserved trophies given to players.

I think that the teachers,nurses,firefighters, law enforcement officers, and others should get the same salary as an professional athlete. It is not fair that professional athletes should get more pay than our public servants because it is not fair the professional athletes become what they want to become because the teachers that help them pass, go to college and get to become famous. Also when the athlete gets hurt the nurses help them get better and they should get pay the same because the help you, they saved your life. Also the firefighters and the law enforcement officers help you be safe and not get harmed.

Imagine you are a teacher. You show up to work every day to a long day of teaching, helping students, and prepping for the next day. You get home from work and have more grading and preparing to complete to be ready for the next day. After working for hours upon hours every day for a pay lower than the average US worker’s income, you turn on the TV, only to hear about the millions of dollars someone is making over a time they may not even be playing or working at all. Whether pro athletes are being given too much money has been a hot topic for the past few decades, ever since athlete salaries have been skyrocketing. Even the incomes of physicians, the highest average paying job in the country comes nowhere close to that of an athlete at the highest level. Pro athletes work very little, are paid much more for their work load, and aren’t able to spend their money effectively after sports.

Furthermore,the sports world shouldn’t have the responsibility of keeping to pay for the athletes costs of spending.An athlete knows that there are consequences to the sport they are getting involved with.Athletes should not keep joining these sports without being educated of what to expect. If one loves that sport go ahead and enjoy it. NFL care for the athletes but should limit of how they care for them. As soon as one accepts the diseases it should no longer be the responsibility of the sports

It is probably believed that sport adepts deserve to be more well-paid than other experts. The high salary advocates these celebrities going through arduous trainings. The hard exercises and fervent games lead to high-pressure competition and the potential risk of trauma, the implication has long term impacts compared to their relatively short

Professional sports mark the most popular form of entertainment in the entirety of showbiz. No longer just a form of entertainment, professional sports have become an extremely profitable business industry. Athletes’ salaries are increasing at excessive rates, both on and off the field. These lucrative activities include product endorsements and other commercial enterprises. Kobe Bryant, an NBA superstar, is recognizable through the Coca-Cola Company, and comparably, the Denver Broncos Peyton Manning is seen in nearly every Papa-John’s commercial, exemplifying few of the off-the-field, income generating positions held by athletes. Typically the majority of professional athletes partake in endorsements with multiple business entities which

Lewis Hamilton recently signed a new contract with Mercedes that will earn him £671,000 a week. Just let that sink in: £671,000 a WEEK. Wouldn’t it be great to earn that sort of money for simply driving a formula one car round a track 50 times in 19 different races? Lewis Hamilton and thousands of athletes around the world take advantage of our willingness to reward the fame and ridiculous amounts of money for what is, eventually, a non-eternal pastime: sport. But do sportsmen and women really deserve all that money? Many others and I think absolutely not. Professional athletes are making staggering amounts of money in a society where salaries and wages should be based on the value and difficulties of ones work. Furthermore

The salaries of athletes were only peanuts twenty to thirty years ago compared to what their salaries are today. However, in my opinion, I believe the world of sports in the United States is far from reasonable when it comes to athletes’ salaries. Many fans are outraged with the high priced contracts given to professional athletes these days. I can’t blame them, many athletes are making more money in just one year than the average citizen will make in their lifetime. Though economics is key in the understanding of why athletes earn such tremendous salaries, but it still fails to explain why they actually deserve it. The justification is that the high salaries distinguish the “stars” from the “normal players,” however I feel that these salaries are not at all reflective of an athlete’s economic importance. Their salaries keep increasing because they know that the public will continue paying for it. I argue that the time commitments these athletes make do not in any way justify their salaries. Teachers, doctors, lawyers, even the president of the United States of America’s time are also valuable to our everyday lives in order to keep the world moving and to better society and yet their salaries don’t justify their time