Why Are Athletes Overpaid

Nowadays athletes are everything: looked upon as role models but seen as bad influences, praised for being the best and ridiculed for getting to much money. No matter where an athlete goes they will receive both praise and criticism. Professional athletes are hard working people and great for people in society, but they are extremely overpaid. The outrageous numbers in an average professional athlete's salary is at least triple the size of a doctor, teacher, or solider, who has a greater role in today's world then an athlete does. The pay increases yearly, but there has been a significant jump over the past twenty years.
People argue that athletes are not overpaid; they work extremely hard every day, work ridiculous days and hours, never get …show more content…
An average Chicago Blackhawks player makes two point seven million dollars a year. An average Chicago Bulls player will make around five million dollars per year. The highest paid doctors make around five to six hundred thousand dollars a year. Doctors save thousands of lives a year and spend lots of time and money to get into the best schools so they can help save the world. An average lawyer with eleven plus years of experience makes around one hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year. These lawyers have majority of the say in whether an innocent person gets put in jail or a guilty person gets set free. These people help shape and organize our society and without them this world would be more of a mess then it already is. Although different sports do pay differently, in reality all professional athletes are paid way more than the most important people in the …show more content…
But the problem with that is no one can avoid sickness or injury. An athlete is paid the "big bucks", called that solely due to their salaries, even if one does not play. In 2013, Derek Jeter, arguably the greatest shortstop ever in Major League Baseball (MLB), only played in four games that season. Mr Jeter went on to make his annual thirteen million dollars he was guaranteed. Samir Nasri, a British Premier League (BPL) soccer player had his worst year of his life, contributing to barely any goals or assists that season. He made his one hundred and thirty eight thousand a week regardless. Only in sports will you find that one does not have to "work" to still receive their money. For example, if a doctor or lawyer did not work, or was not working to their best potential, he/she would be fired or asked to take a leave of absence; majority of the time being unpaid. It is not fair for athletes to get paid great large sums of regardless whether they perform or even