Football

percentage of who get the big bucks, get paid.


https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/heres-what-the-average-nfl-players-makes-in-a-season.html

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The minimum annual salary for a rookie active roster player with a one-year contract is $480,000, according to the collective bargaining agreement the NFL signed in 2011 with the NFL Players Association, which will be in effect until 2020.

That minimum increases for each year a player spends in the NFL. A player with three years’ experience would command a salary equal to at least $705,000, while players with seven to nine years on the field must be paid at least $915,000.

That’s great news for those lucky enough to last that long in the NFL, but many won’t ring in a seventh year on the job. The average career length is less than three years, meaning most players never advance beyond the lower rungs of that payment ladder.

Of course, $480,000 is by no means a poor wage — it just isn’t quite the seven-digit figure many football fans might expect.

When you factor in all the players earning these minimum salaries, along with the payouts of a team’s golden boy, you’ll find that the average NFL salary was only about $2.7 million in 2017, according to The L.A. Times. That’s less than three-quarters of the average $4 million earnings of a major league baseball player and less than half the typical wage of NBA players, who earn about $7.1 million on average.

But even that average salary is probably too high to accurately reflect what an everyman in the NFL makes in a year, thanks to outliers like Wilson and Elliott pulling the average up with their outsize earnings. The median salary for all NFL players is actually about $860,000, much closer to those sums outlined in the sport’s minimum payment guidelines, according to The Houston Chronicle.

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