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    Get Paid Too Much? I would like to begin with saying that I in personal opinion believe that the majority of footballers get paid too much. The average premier league footballer wages have reached £22‚353 a week this is before the ludicrous bonuses this adds up to £1.16million a year!! However it all depends on what you mean by footballer. A footballer could be anyone that plays football‚ so this means that not all footballers even get paid (as a footballer). So ‘Do Footballers Get Paid Too Much’

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    Do professional athletes get paid enough? Yes‚ they do‚ and for many different reasons. Athletes have to deal with large commitments‚ the danger of playing sports‚ and common life expenses. Often‚ professional athletes are offered contracts by a certain team or sponsor. Some of these contracts can be for a long period of time too. Next‚ playing sports has a very large risk for injury. These athletes never know when they will have a career ending injury. Lastly‚ athletes still have to pay for common

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    Professional athletes get paid way too much - by Debate.org Thank you to whoever accepts my debate Let me start off... Professional athletes get paid way too much. Here are some statistics on the salaries of pro athletes. Profession Average salary (per year) Minimum starting salary : Basketball player $2.2 million $220‚000 Baseball player $1.37 million $109‚000 Hockey player $892‚000 $125‚000 Football player $795‚000 $131‚000 In contrast • The average pay for classroom teachers in

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    How much is too much? With gas prices soaring‚ the housing market crumbling‚ poverty rates rising‚ and the country sinking into more debt by the day‚ money is on a lot of people’s minds right now. Millions of people are struggling to put food on the table while celebrities are signing multi-million dollar contracts for movies and sports. Many entertainment and sports personalities have very high incomes‚ while most people in "ordinary" professions like nurses‚ doctors and teachers earn only

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    Professional athletes get paid over a million ¬¬dollars each year just to compete and advertise for companies while teachers get paid $40k- $158k per year. Boxer Floyd Mayweather‚ Jr. is the highest paid athlete of 2015-2016 making $150 million yearly with soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo of Spain coming in a close second with a yearly salary of $80 million. Teachers and professors in Luxembourg are paid the highest amount in the world with a starting salary of $79k that can reach over $138k. The

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    opinion‚ professional athletes deserve their salaries because of their talent‚ the huge revenue they draw‚ the demands of their job‚ and society’s emphasis on sports and entertainment. Irreplaceable In order to be a professional athlete you have to be “the best of the best” (figuratively). To become “the best of the best” requires hours and hours of practice. These athletes are born with amazing athletic abilities and then must develop and fine tune those abilities to become professional; those

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    Are professional athletes overpaid? This question continues to permeate conversations from the board rooms to locker rooms; to street corners and beyond. How much is too much money for an athlete to earn. Folks will argue that the money could be spent on increasing teachers salaries as they are responsible for sculpting the minds of the American youth. Athletes make more money in one day than most Americans will make in a lifetime. New York Times best selling author David Epstein posed the following

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    Mihir Bhagat on the website Bleacher Report. The author believes that athletes are getting paid way too much money for their role in society; to play games for people’s entertainment. Salaries and wages are traditionally based on the value of one’s work but this rule does not necessarily follow in reference to high league athletes. In a day where one should be paid according to that person’s job’s economic importance‚ athletes simply are not. An example used in the article is the difference in salary

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    teenager who wants to make something of their future. Parents will greatly appreciate the fact they don’t have to pay for school or take out grants and loans for their children. Graduating from college with no debt is amazing. Students should not be paid because they are receiving a free education/degree. School is not a job‚ it’s an institution for educating. Children in Africa pray for the chance at an education. Even foreign exchange students come to the United States just to go to school and get

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    Many professional athletes and entertainers get paid far more than most of today’s doctors and veterinarians. It makes it seem like their positions are better than a doctor’s or teacher’s position. It upsets many of the workers who try to insure health‚ education‚ and agriculture. It can also put low-salary workers to shame. I disagree with the athletes’ and entertainers’ high salary because it makes them seem more important than other professional workers‚ it makes them richer than other professional

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