Why Do Professional Athletes Get Paid

Wouldn’t it be great to earn $270 million just to play a simple game? Neymar, along with other professional athletes think so. But do these athletes deserve all of this money? The answer is absolutely not. Professional athletes are paid way too much in a society where salary is suppose to be based on a job’s economic importance. Teaching is one of the most important economical jobs because our future economy relies on it, yet teachers are making a fraction of what professional athletes are making. A teacher's average yearly salary is approximately 55,000. That is equivalent to about a third of what Floyd Mayweather Jr. made during the Mayweather and McGregor fight PER SECOND. Police officers, firefighters, and doctors all save lives while risking their own yet only get paid a fraction of what professional athletes get paid. Even the most important man in our nation, the president, is working hard to revive our nation and gets paid $400,000 while the lowest salary for a unproven NBA rookie is $490,000 which is absurd considering their state in econimcial importance There are many people in this world that work twice as much as an athlete does yet barely get anything when compared to a professional athlete. There are people in this world working thieir but off just to put …show more content…
Although professional athletes work very hard day in and day out and have worked hard ever since they were young, they do not deserve the huge salaries they are getting especially not when there are other people working just as hard if not harder than them just to put food on the table and support their families. All the extra money that athletes are getting should be going towards education or paying teachers or other occupations that are very important to our community such as police officers, firefighters, or even people in the military who left their families to protect and fight for our