Nice work if you can get it.

[Aussie in exile]

$2Million loyalty bonus for leaving the game with the on going Essendon saga.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...onths-as-afl-ceo/story-fni5f22o-1227248118081

 

[Mningasimisonda]

That beats earning 1 million to study in France.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Best thread on bigfooty by a long margin, I mean really, WOW.

 

[SBYM]

The tzatziki and dolmades are on him.

 

[Schraderbrau]

meh, the AFL is a billion dollar industry, you don't want a dill running it. To attract the best people you have to pay.

 

[SBYM]

meh, the AFL is a billion dollar industry, you don't want a dill running it. To attract the best people you have to pay.

I'm confused...

 

[Wild Bill]

The game is thriving - good on him.

In the corporate world that is not much.

 

[andrew coombs]

What exactly does the OP believe the CEO of a spectacularly successful ( especially compared to other major sports in this country) organisation like the AFL should have been paid?

 

[Ricmel]

That beats earning 1 million to study in France.

You know that would just be a "Yahoo!" moment. I wish my employer would punish me like that.

 

[Furn2]

Wait, you guys don't make that much ?

 

[the_interloper]

In answer to the thread title to get this sort of job you have to be incredibly well credentialled, respected, highly trained and have skills that probably 0.001% of the population have. People love to bag Demetriou but by nearly all business metrics he was a huge success as CEO, and if he didn't apparently deserve the money it would be the commission's fault not his.

 

[Shane Hird]

When you think about how many people are directly employed through the AFL system ( players, club staff, AFL staff, ground staff, umpires etc) it runs into the many thousands.

No different from a CEO in charge of a massive Australia wide company.

Doesn't bother me one bit that A.D and brother of Hame get paid the dollars they receive.