Receive Such High Salaries?
Professional athletes are persons who do sports for a living. These are people who earn on the average $48, 310 per year, though top athletes can earn millions even in just one game. The topmost earner is Tiger Woods who earns $80.3 million per year (Forbes 2004) and Michael Schumacher who earns $80 million (Forbes 2004). Because of the exuberant salaries that high-ranking professional athletes receive and the above-average salary that most professional athletes get, the salaries of such athletes have been put into public scrutiny. Do they receive such salaries when professionals such as teachers, lawyers, policemen, or doctors who do a lot of service to the community