Does anyone know if Major League Baseball players still receive a per diem allowance for food for each game played on the road? If so what do you think of highly paid athletes getting a meal allowance?
Any help/links will be greatly appreciated!
2007-08-28 15:05:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
Yes they do!
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/nba/article/0,2777,DRMN_23922_5427887,00.html
Another article talking about NBA, MLB, and NHL per diem
2007-08-28 15:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by Sir Psycho T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Standard business travel protocol in any domestic sector, plus a long-established practice in baseball in particular. Ballplayers have travel as a required part of their work; hotels and meals are standard expenses when traveling. MLB simply cuts through the paperwork by having the teams' traveling secretaries pay for the hotels en masse and handing out meal money directly.
I don't travel for business any more, but by gosh, baseball's approach (here, take the cash) would have simplified some things.
That ballplayers tend to earn salaries with six, seven, eight digits isn't really relevant, though some tend to get ruffled by the very concept.
2007-08-28 16:23:10 · answer #2 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes - they get $84 per day when the team is on the road. They get it mostly because if they don't, then other team personnel who aren't highly paid wouldn't get it.
2007-08-28 15:32:30 · answer #3 · answered by JerH1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do-as of May 2015, they get $100.50/day away in cash.
2016-11-18 16:14:47 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋