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1 - many players are not making millions a year. eg in 2017, two rookie quarterbacks in the playoffs were making $450k, the league minimum. All those average
by x0x0 9y ago
1 - many players are not making millions a year. eg in 2017, two rookie quarterbacks in the playoffs were making $450k, the league minimum. All those average salary facts include eg Tom Brady.
2 - even at $1m/year, you may collect $550k after tax. Three years of that is not never work again money.
- ska 9y agoThree years of that is not never work again money. It's worth noting that three years of that gets you a bit over median household income at safe extraction (i.e. 4%) rate. It's not FU money, but as an emergency fall back it is obviously plausibly never work again money.
- criddell 9y agoThe median salary is $700,000. The average career lasts 3 years. Therefore you could say a typical player makes around $2 million playing football. That's gross. The net is probably about half of that. To most of America that will make an order of magnitude less than that in the same time, that sounds pretty good.