...Gender Gap For Athletes Abstract: The gender wage gap right now is as prevalent in the United State as ever, although in recent years it has shrunk, but women still make significantly less than men. In this paper I will focus on the gender wage gap amongst athletes and examine the possibilities for the gap in income. Income Gender Gap For Athletes The income of professional athletes have been a popular debate for the past twenty years due to the exponential growth of their income accompanied with a rise in cost to attend sporting events. The growth of female athletes’ salary has also been very large, but they still make significantly less than male athletes. There are several factors that affect the gap in earnings such as larger revenues in men leagues because of a larger demand for men’s sports and other factors that may include discrimination. Athletes throughout the world are known for being extremely highly paid, some athletes such as Tiger Woods have net worth’s approaching a billion dollars. The salary of professional athletes has come a long way in recent years; with the help of labor unions they have gotten a fair portion revenues unlike athletes in the past when owners got almost all revenues. Female athlete’s salaries have increased but not at the extreme rate that men’s have. Tiger Woods is the highest paid male athlete in the world with a salary that includes endorsements he made 100 million dollars, (Freedman 1) but the highest paid athlete tennis player...
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...tournament. Athletes get very well compensated for their efforts when playing for their football, basketball, soccer teams or any other sports. But is it wrong for someone to want to make more money and live comfortably? What one football player makes in one year in income, some construction worker will work all his life and never get close to achieving that sort of money. “Tiger Woods is still the highest-paid athlete in the world–and it isn’t even a close call. Woods earned $75 million over the past 12 months, easily outdistancing second-ranked Kobe Bryant, who made $53 million”(Forbes). Many people think that athletes are well over paid. Those athletes are just entertainers and not anything outside of this world to be able to make that kind of money. Yes, athletes put their health, physically and mentally, on the line every time they go onto the field for a game but is it fair to an everyday member of society like a police officer that only makes $42,000 a year. Some people do think that the millions athletes earn is acceptable. The feeling that the Packers gave the city of Green Bay last year or the feeling that the Bruins gave the city of Boston last year was priceless. Sports has gone to new level over the past 20 years, it has gone from playing for fun and the love of ones city or country, to just wanting to make more money. On the other hand, society is the cause of these outrages salaries and endorsement contracts that athletes get. “The 2010 World Cup Final set...
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...Professional Athletes Overpaid? Have you ever considered how much money does an average person need to be able to have food three times a day, have a house, be able to send their children to school to get an education and even have a car? Realistically, all of this plus a little more can be done with an income of between $45,000 and $55,000 easily. For some reason, it was decided by us, people who labor is harder than the most, like janitors, factory workers, and even factory workers, should be paid less than someone that sits on a desk all day or someone that gets paid to play a game for living. Athletes today are the highest paid people in the world, with the exclusion of Donald Trump and Bill Gates. If you think about it, it is absurd to believe that someone is really worth millions of dollars and all they do is play a sport. Millions of people would do this for free if they had the chance. For that reason, I believe professional athletes are overpaid for many reasons. In USA Today Magazine, under section Your Life it says, “Although many professional athletes apparently still feel underpaid, just two percent of the public agrees, according to a survey conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide. In fact, the vast majority of Americans think athletes are overpaid.”(USA Today) This is ridiculous to hear for these athletes already making millions of dollars which is way more than they deserve. Also, in this article it states that professional athletes get paid what our...
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...most important elements of any franchise – the athletes. Confronting the challenges these figures have and continue to face are an important part of any sports management position. One such challenge is the disparity in pay among male and female athletes. The income gap between men and women athletes, is on average only 77% of what their male counterparts earn. However, the gap is much wider in the world of elite sports, where female athletes earn just a fraction of what men earn in the same profession. The inequality...
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...Athletes are paid too much, they get millions a year while firefighters get barely 70,000 dollars and I think it is time for this to stop. Although they are hard working firefighter work harder. Reason one fire fighters around the world are risking their lives for other and athlete are just winning games. Reason two the exact amounts of money they get each year. Reason 3 do athletes use their money on others? I am going to tell you more about this in some paragraphs. So to start of standard firefighters are working hard and saving live and are not getting paid enough for their lives and their family. Although it is not easy to be athlete other harder jobs like fire fighting and being a police because you are risking your life for others and getting paid less than somebody who is doing nothing but a sport. Con for this pro is that the text http://www.knowswhy.com/why-do-athletes-get-paid-so-much/ .¨Before you become a professional athlete, you have first to undergo trainings, exercises and the like, for which, it will take much of your time. Not to mention the fact the time that an athlete consumes for their personal training before they will be professional in their field of sports is often unpaid.¨...
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...“I’m strong, I’m tough, I still wear my eyeliner”- Lisa Leslie. Lisa Leslie is a former American basketball player. She is a three time WNBA MVP and four time Olympic gold medal winner. But what about her salary? WNBA players get paid between $50,000 to $110,000. However, NBA players get paid up to $560,000. That’s a $450,000 difference! Females athletes don’t deserve this. They train equally as hard or even twice as hard as male athletes. They play the same sports with the same rules and same equipment. Many female athletes don’t get paid with the money they deserve and that’s not right especially if they have won more trophies/medals than men. This sends a bad message to the younger generation, mostly to young girls who want to be an athlete when they grow up. The gender pay gap is getting smaller for jobs like teachers, doctors and police officers. Being an athlete is no different from...
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...One of the biggest arguments there is in today’s world is about paychecks. Everyone wants to be paid more, but here is the most massive case is, should professional athletes be paid more than our military members? The men and women are serving in the military number in the hundreds of thousands; it would be nearly impossible to pay them all more than the highest paid athletes. Service members are government employees, whereas athletes are in the employees of an individual, corporatized franchises who can afford to pay them however much they'd like. Simply put, it is not a matter of should we pay the military better than athletes, but can we? Not everyone can be a professional athlete; A person has to have talent with the ability and hard...
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...Gage Meyers Mrs. Byers Comp. 1-4 15 April 2014 Athletes Do Not Deserve What They Are Paid It would be great to make 31.3 million dollars a year. Adding an additional 47 million dollars in endorsements for simply playing a game that an athlete loves. Michael Jordan, along with several other professional athletes, think getting paid millions of dollars is perfect. In the 1996 season, after playing 3,106 minutes, Michael Jordan made 170,000 dollars a day which is the equivalent of 160.97 dollars a second (Christian Science Monitor). Another unbelievable statistic is Mike Tyson's earnings in his match with Peter McNeeley. In a single second, he made 281,000 dollars (Christian Science Monitor). Alex Rodriguez will be paid $29 million this season, making him the highest paid player in baseball (Newsday). Rodriguez’s salary is $4 million more than the entire 25-man roster of the Houston Astros will make this year (Newsday). Athletes do not deserve all that money. President Obama’s salary is 400,000 dollars. President Obama is the leader of the ‘United States of America, and he is paid less than a professional athlete that sits on the bench in any professional sport. Professional athletes are easily the most over paid job in America. Professional athletes are overpaid in several professional sports. Professional sports generate massive revenues, and the athletes who play these sports are being paid tremendously high salaries. New York Yankees baseball star, Alex Rodriguez, signed a contract...
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...during the 2000 Olympic Games where she won three Gold Medals and two Bronze Medals. She was later sentenced to six months in prison for lying to the court and stripped off of all of her medals. Throughout history, there have been many stories of athletes using performance enhancing drugs, but none more than in the last 20 years. As technology advances in science as well as the media, more drugs has been engineer to enhance performance as well as the test to detect such drugs, as the results get to the hands of the media, the entire world would be at noticed in a manner of minutes. The fact is that performance enhancing drugs have existed since the time of the ancient Greek during the original Olympic Games from 776 BC – 393 BC. The question is why should we care? If most athletes are using it, is it a plain level field? And why is the government involved? Should the government be involved? Let’s examine the issue and conclude what should be the ethical choice. I will first begin asking why do athletes choose to use performance enhancing drugs. The obvious answer would be to gain an advantage on the competition, which is the selfish reason. But why not, Should we be looking after ourselves? An egoist approach to this issue, if the athlete can take a drug that makes them better...
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...Being an athletes is one of the best-paid jobs on Earth. Being that they are paid so much the cost for the consumer is very high. The prices of tickets and sports memorabilia have been steadily rising over the years. The average ticket prices for the NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL all rose 5% to 10% this year, according to Jon Greenberg, executive editor of Team Marketing Report. (Mihoces). Athletes are very highly paid due to the fact that there is a large demand of viewers that like to follow their sport. Without the fans, the demand for sports wouldn’t be as high and due to the fact that the fans pay their salaries. The fact of the matter is that professional athletes are making a lot of money because people are willing to pay the high costs of tickets and merchandise to watch some of the best athletes. A good example of that is if you compare the salary of the average NFL player to the average MLS player. The average NFL player makes $705,882 while the average MLS player makes $79,500 (Keating). In America we have the best football players in the world and people are more willing to pay more to watch them than MLS players. Revenue in all sporting franchises has been going up at a steady rate each year due to the work of the athletes and it only makes sense that their pay increases relative to the money coming into their sport. It is simply economics, “athletes, like all workers, are worth what the free market is willing to pay” (Keating). The bosses of these athletes are going...
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...Why professional athletes deserve what they are being paid Professional Athletes Salaries I have developed a love for baseball and have done a lot of research to understand and to defend my position on the topic of their salaries. I have engaged in surveys with sports fans and non sports fans. I have had extensive conversations with people that I consider experts on the subject of sports and salaries, in addition to an enormous amount of web surfing. I am not here to change your mind and get you to believe only me, but to entice you to make a new decision based on new information. I completely understand the position that individuals take on the enormous salaries that professional athletes make. However, I ask a few minutes of your time to “walk a mile in their shoes” (Kirby/Goodpaster, 2007) from my perspective and that of many others. I would like to talk with you what is takes to become a major leaguer, the logic behind their enormous salaries and where that money is generated and about the personal dedication and contribution to society that these players provide on a daily basis. Let’s discover the whole story and see where this leads us. Let me ask you a couple of questions to ponder first as you listen to my story. If your child had a natural ability whether it was sports, numbers, or debating would you do all that you could do to inspire and encourage a pursuit in that career field or put a cap on potential earnings? As a professional Sports player...
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...College Athletes brings about 12 billion annually and one billions to the NCAA, but where that money goes? Do athletes deserve that money? Basketball and football are the main sports in colleges and the visits had increase. Meanwhile, college athletes should not get paid because they are not forced to play, they already receive scholarships, and not all college sports bring money. First of all, college athletes should not receive salary with the fact that they play voluntary. Students decide to involve in sport world with the purpose of getting experience for their future. A member of NCAA, Horace Mitchell describe that “Student-athletes are amateurs who choose to participate in intercollegiate athletics as part of their educational experience”...
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...Compare and Contrast Christopher Smith University of Phoenix COM-170 COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION I January 14, 2014 Regina Vega Compare and Contrast Growing up, there are countless young boys, who have the dream of someday being a professional football or baseball player. Going outside and letting the imagination of being on the big stage and making the final pitch to win the World Series or the final Hail Mary throw to win the Super bowl. As a young kid, the dream of one day being the best and be paid to play a sport they grew up loving and playing. Although the sports of football and baseball are both very popular, there are a substantial amount of differences between them. Compared to baseball, football is the more popular sport in the country. In 2012, Super bowl XLVI had an estimated average of 111.3 million people watching as the Giants beat the Patriots. However, the World Series that year only managed to average 12.7 million viewers to watch the series between the Giants/Tigers. So looking at the two championship events in both individual sports the super bowl was clearly the more popular championship game of the two sports. Due to such a high amount of viewers, Super Bowl commercials can cost advertisers millions of dollars for a commercial spot in the Super Bowl. In last year’s super bowl XLVII, the cost for a thirty second commercial slot during the super bowl cost around 3.5 million to 4 million dollars...
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...thing that should change. The money that professional athletes make should go to other, more important causes like feeding the homeless, or at least a portion of the revenue. Making such a large amount of money can make a person financially unstable believe it or not. Athletes’ paycheck should be cut a decent sum. One reason an athlete’s paycheck should be cut is because others who work harder than they do, receive a very mediocre paycheck. (http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Are-Athletes-Overpaid/177751) Hard working people get to come home exhausted every night, only to turn on their television and watch someone get paid millions of dollars by doing what they love. This would not make them feel very good about themselves. An average American makes between $55,000-$65,000 dollars a year. (http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Are-Athletes-Overpaid/177751) This is barely enough to pay the bills, put food on the table, or even put gasoline in their car. Products in our daily lives are becoming more and more expensive by the second, but our paychecks are staying the same. Behind people like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, athletes are the highest paid people in the world. (http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Are-Athletes-Overpaid/177751) 98% of Americans agree that athletes are in fact overpaid. (http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Are-Athletes-Overpaid/177751) A portion of the money that the athletes make each year should go to some people that have...
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...Sports in the college world are popular in the U.S. world. Mainly, we enjoy watching these events because it features colleges from our state or alma mater. The athletes in college play the sport because most of them want to make a career off of it, while others play it for enjoyment. Unlike professional sports, college athletes do not get paid during their time playing in college. Usually they try to improve their stock in college in order to have a chance to play professionally by getting drafted by a pro team. However, most athletes get scholarships to enter their college of choice. Recently, there have been arguments within college athletes that they should be payed for playing their respective sport. This has been a popular topic among the college ranks whether they should pay these college athletes when they already have a scholarship and get national exposure. Nonetheless, college athletes should not be paid for playing their respective sport because athletes already have positive benefits of being able to be in college and playing a sport. There are many negative aspects of paying college athletes. We can start with financial cost within the NCAA industry. This issue has mainly started with men’s basketball and football players. The issue is that if the NCAA is to pay men’s basketball and football players, they would also have to pay women’s volleyball and soccer players, and every other athlete at these institutions. According to TITLE IX, it must provide equal opportunity...
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