Athlete Salary: Week 2
When I left off, Riccio was getting in the way, but that was last week. This week was a lot different, there wasn't that many distractions. And of course I was still completely engrossed in my music. Today I actually wanted to find why a professional athlete makes more than a doctor?
From the days of ESPN, I have moved on to new things. I want to find out how baseball salaries really hold up against the rest of the World's pay. A doctor's pay is higher then the rest of America's workers, but it still does not hold up against Professional athletes' salaries. The average staff physician makes $145,000 and a heart surgeon, the most paid doctor, makes $312,300 ("Doctor Salaries").
Now what sense does that make? A life saving doctor isn't even in the same pay league as a disgruntled third baseman or a mad wide receiver. True, the athletes work hard but if they make a mistake no one will die. On the other hand if a heart surgeon makes one mistake, his patient will not be leaving the hospital on his own feet. If I was a doctor, let alone a heart surgeon, I would be going on strike immediately. What type of man would put a price on a someone's life, especially if it comes down to: Do you want live or rather catch a football, or even be able to throw a baseball from center field to home base.
That was a doctors pay, how do construction workers hold up? Now their work may not be saving lives, but they are pretty important considering that we trust them to put the roof above our heads. The also put up the buildings we work in, go to school in, or even play recreational sports in. They have a hard living working from 6 a.m. or earlier till the jobs done, or the sun goes down. At least with another profession closing time means quitting time. An average consturction worker makes $11.90 an hour ("Constructio Worker's Earn"), which is $476 a week and $24, 752 a year. So a constructon worker who builds the athlete's house only makes $25K compared to his athlete counterpart, which would be in the millions.
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"DOCTOR SALARIES OUTPACE PAY OF MOST AMERICAN WORKERS." Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (Feb 12, 1995): B7. Custom Newspapers.. Gale. McKinley High School. 1 May 2008
"How much money does a construction worker earn?." WikiAnswer 05 06 2008
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Dan, that is crazy. The fact that a person who makes decisions that have to do with your life makes less than, way less than some one who just catches a ball. That's ludicrous. It makes no sense, most of the athletes are whinny little babies anyway. Seriously!!!!
you have alot have infromation in your blog
Athletes are good at what they do but I dont think they deserve such a high income to play a game. Most people work hard their whole lives and not make as much as athletes do in a year. Im pretty sure somethings not right.
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