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Teachers, to start.
by benburleson 13y ago
Teachers, to start.
- harryh 13y agoThat's a silly answer for a lot of reasons. But more than any it doesn't make much of a difference. The NFL will spend about 3.8B on salaries next year. The NBA is around 2B. MLB is around 3.2B. Add that up and you get 9B. Spread that evenly among the 7.2 Million teachers in the US and you get: only 1,250 each.
- VikingCoder 13y agoThe average high school teacher in the US makes about $44k a year. A 2.8% raise is nothing to scoff at. Also, I think you're vastly underestimating, based on all of the support staff necessary to make a sporting facility, man it, broadcast it, and comment on it. Not to mention how much the team owners take out of it.
- harryh 13y agoWell we were just talking about salaries for the players which is why I only quoted those numbers. I think that most of the sports union contracts stipulate that players get around 50% of gross revenues so you can double things if you want to go that route.
- VikingCoder 13y agoA 5.6% raise is not nothing. ;-)
- harryh 13y agoOh ya, it's definitely not nothing. But it's not the huge windfall I think that OP implied. It's not "if we didn't spend so much money on sports we could fix all these problems we have in our education system" money.
- VikingCoder 13y agoSports merchandising. Travel to sporting events. I overall think it would hurt the economy (not "help education,") but you're still massively understating the money spent on sports.