WHY Do Sports Figures get paid SO much &..?

Question

teachers & the like get paid in peanuts & rubber duckies??

How on God's green earth do you justify ANY of them making 50+ million bucks no matter how good they are??

Answer 1

MONEY MONEY MONEY, the fans like sports, owner buy players to win, owners get sponsors to buy time and we pay owners to get players

Answer 2

Dude, i hate it too, so I asked some people and they explained it to me this way: There aren't alot of them. Compared to like docters and police officers, or people fighting our wars, there are only a set number of players on a major league team and so many teams in the country. And some times it's a sport that only your country plays making a totaly of say 200 people in the world with the "job" of being a sports figure.

There are millions of teachers out there, so they get paid less.

I still hate it, but thats what i've been told.

Answer 3

alot of it has to do with the success of the league itself, and how much revenue is available for the organization.
an organization like the NFL or the NBA makes more and more money each and every year, and the more the league makes in revenue, the more the players salaries will continue to go up,


teachers usually get paid by the state that their in, which in most cases, their isnt much extra revenue to go around, so as result, salaries dont go up that much most years, if at all.

Answer 4

I don't think it's justifiable. They make too much but if the fans love them enough and the since atheletes don't have other ways of making a living, if injured, that's what they will make. Too much.

Answer 5

Because their fans keep buying over priced tickets and memorbilia.
If we quit putting so much money into them than they'd probably make less.

Answer 6

It's supply and demand.
The supply of teachers is relatively high and demand is low.
The supply of professional athletes is very low. and the demand as you demonstrate by buying the jerseys and tickets is very high.