Society & Culture Crazy Salaries

[yeah_nah_yeah]

Just watching the NBA, Knicks vs Nets, and the commentators were talking about Travis Outlaw for the Nets.

This year he signed a 5 year $35 million contract .

All this for a bit player, who most Nets fans wouldn't have heard of, who played with the Trailblazers and Clippers.

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I know it's different over there with salaries, but wow, they get paid well.

What other salaries make you go...wow?

 

[yummy6]

They don't so much as make me go wow but being a professional golfer or tennis player would be quite the lifestyle.Travelling the world, doing something you love and earning the money.

 

[James23]

Soccer salaries are beyond ridiculous. Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo eanring approxiametly a million $ every week.

Personally, i would feel bad earning this amount of money when you consider 3 quarters of the world live in poverty.

 

[Caesar]

Soccer and basketball ain't got shit on baseball and F1. Kimi Raikkonen is on $51M a year.

Soccer salaries aren't actually that big compared to American sports. A lot of the money is burned up in transfer fees, of which the players generally receive a slice.

 

[r dub 19]

Soccer salaries are beyond ridiculous. Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo eanring approxiametly a million $ every week.

Personally, i would feel bad earning this amount of money when you consider 3 quarters of the world live in poverty.

The highest paid player is yaya toure on around 225k(pounds) a week. Nowhere near a million.

 

[James23]

The highest paid player is yaya toure on around 225k(pounds) a week. Nowhere near a million.

Including sponsorships

 

[Schulzenfest]

Port's two highest paid players both ended the year in the SANFL.

 

[the emergency]

The highest paid player is yaya toure on around 225k(pounds) a week. Nowhere near a million.

way overpaid
awesome player
not worth 28 million pounds

 

[Football God]

David Beckham five-years, $250m LA Galaxy deal

Just to make soccer bigger in the u.s

Robbie Fowler knows heaps of English players today and said he would lure them over here in their twilight years.

Be pretty awesome to have a Wayne Rooney in the A-League.

 

[Caesar]

Beckham's deal was a bit of PR, it's not actually his contract value:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham#Los_Angeles_Galaxy

Predictably, the announcement made top news all across the globe. Though many worldwide media outlets reported the deal to be worth US$250 million,[75] the astronomical figure was soon revealed to be something of a PR stunt engineered by Beckham's media handlers (British representative agency 19 Entertainment).[76] In order to maximize the media effect, in the press release they decided to list the potential sum that Beckham could make over the 5-year period from all his revenue sources, which in addition to his Galaxy pay also include his personal endorsements. Beckham's actual deal with the Galaxy was a 5-year contract worth US$32.5 million in total or $6.5 million per year.[77]

 

[the emergency]

Beckham's deal was a bit of PR, it's not actually his contract value:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham#Los_Angeles_Galaxy

PR or not, he's the most marketable man on the planet - wouldnt surprise me if he is on about 50mil a year

 

[yeah_nah_yeah]

How about A-Rod in the Baseball?

In December 2007, Rodriguez and the Yankees agreed to a 10-year, $275 million contract. This contract was the richest contract in baseball history (breaking his previous record of $252 million).

27.5mil a year for 10 years...Holy crap!

 

[Smoooothy]

dunno about you guys, but i kinda feel bad that i wasn't better at sports

 

[Spermbird]

Got a nice list here. Ranks agents by their 4 highest contracts currently running (and lists them)


http://www.businessinsider.com/most-powerful-sports-agents-2011-11?slop=1

 

[100action]

IIRC Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao made $40 million + last year including endorsements. If the fight between those two happen it could be anywhere between 2.5million to 3.5 million PPV's so probs a split of $50 million each just for one fight.

Boxing is probably still the king, the heavyweights generally sell the best and even in its current state with relatively unknown title holders like the Klitschko's, they still manage to fill arenas in Europe and sell a decent amount of PPVs. I hate to think how much money a heavyweight boxer that can get everybody interested like a Ali, Tyson, Foreman, Dempsey, Liston, Frazier can earn right now.

 

[yeah_nah]

Charlie Sheen being paid whatever he is getting for Two and a Half Men

I think it's ridiculous to pay him at all. Apparently he was the highest salary for a TV actor ever, for Two and a Half Men

 

[r dub 19]

Including sponsorships

They wouldn't get 800k a week in sponsorships.

 

[Bourky23]

seeing stuff like this, plus watching shows like entourage just make me sigh with failure.

what a life some people live.

 

[Caesar]

Kind of makes you realise how our athletes get screwed. Baseballers and F1 drivers can compete at the top level late into their 30s (sometimes even their 40s).

AFL and rugby players finish their careers often a decade earlier, and suffer far more wear and tear to their bodies for a fraction of the money.

 

[Bourky23]

it's all about supply and demand.

although we think our game is the best in the world, fact of the matter is we are well and truly in a global minority with that opinion.

motorsport doesn't interest me in the slightest (heck I don't even consider it a 'sport') but for whatever reason, hundreds upon hundreds of millions of people enjoy it which = corporate $$$$

 

[Selective Retention]

How about A-Rod in the Baseball?

27.5mil a year for 10 years...Holy crap!

At the end of the 10 years it will probably be seen like Alastair Lynch's deal with Brisbane

Agreed on AFL players. Take out Ablett, Judd and Brown and they really aren't earning that big money for what they do. The CEO of a not for profit organisation earns more than them

 

[FootyJunkie]

Charlie Sheen being paid whatever he is getting for Two and a Half Men

I think it's ridiculous to pay him at all. Apparently he was the highest salary for a TV actor ever, for Two and a Half Men

Still don't understand why he needs to pay hookers to get his knob wet.

He could just stroll into any bar in L.A., play the character he plays in Two and a Half Men, and tell any gorgeous lass there "I'm Charlie Sheen, wanna f*** ?"

 

[rocker_oz33]

it out of control what some sports stars get paid are they really worth that much? na

 

[yeah_nah_yeah]

The duds in Friends, in the end, were paid very well:

In their original contracts for the first season, each cast member was paid $22,500 per episode.[19] The cast members received different salaries in the second season, beginning from the $20,000 range to $40,000 per episode.[19][20] Prior to their salary negotiations for the third season, the cast decided to enter collective negotiations, despite Warner Bros.' preference for individual deals.[21] The actors were given the salary of the least paid cast member, meaning Aniston and Schwimmer had their salaries reduced. The stars were paid $75,000 per episode in season three, $85,000 in season four, $100,000 in season five, $125,000 in season six, $750,000 in seasons seven and eight, and $1 million in seasons nine and ten.[17][22] The cast also received syndication royalties beginning with the fifth season.

24 episodes - $1mil each episode - easy money

 

[yeah_nah]

seeing stuff like this, plus watching shows like entourage just make me sigh with failure.

what a life some people live.

I watched seasons 6 and 7 of Entourage last week... You feel incompetent at every aspect of life after that