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How long ago were you thinking? I think your suggested salary numbers are off by about a factor of 10. The average salary is about $2 million/year. The media
by nkurz 11y ago
How long ago were you thinking? I think your suggested salary numbers are off by about a factor of 10.
The average salary is about $2 million/year.
The median salary is about $1 million/year.
The minimum salary for a first year player is over $400,000.
Here's an article with lots of details for 5 years ago:
http://work.chron.com/much-money-nfl-player-make-year-2377.html http://work.chron.com/much-money-nfl-player-make-year-2377.h...
And here are links to team-by-team numbers: http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/ http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/
- vacri 11y agoIt was a while back, yes. It looks like the players have had a significant win in the meantime - minimum player salary increases by $15k/year for the next four years: http://www.spotrac.com/blog/nfl-minimum-salaries-for-2015-and-the-veteran-cap-benefit-rule/ http://www.spotrac.com/blog/nfl-minimum-salaries-for-2015-an... $400k for a 3-year career is a lot better than the picture I was painting, thanks for the correction. edit: link fix
- nkurz 11y agoThanks, that's a better link than I found. It also shows that the minimum combined salary over 3 years for a player starting in 2016 would be $450K + $540K + $630K = $1.6M. Even assuming that they had no other employment for the rest of their life, that's significantly greater than the current median lifetime earnings for college graduates: http://www.businessinsider.com/college-majors-biggest-lifetime-earnings-2014-9 http://www.businessinsider.com/college-majors-biggest-lifeti...