Why Do Athletes Get Overpaid

How much money does a professional athlete make compared to many other people who have different jobs like nurses or teachers? On average, the money a professional athlete can make yearly can be around forty million dollars while a nurse or a teacher can only make one-hundred thousand dollars yearly. Many people don’t realise what the problem is. The problem is that athletes can cover millions of dollars or even billions of dollars. The fact that remains is that athletes are getting overpaid yearly, and we should not let athletes get overpaid.

Athletes still make millions or billions of dollars yearly but, there are many people who have dangerous and high risk at the cost of your life or someone else. There are firefighters who have to save people from disasters; any type doctors or surgeons who have to save children; and teachers/professors who have to teach the students at any school, college, or university. Scope writer for the December 2016-January 2017 Scope Magazine, Jesse Edelman, Exclaimed, “Even the president doesn’t make that much money!” (P.24) The president and the highest paying jobs don’t even get paid around billions or millions of dollars yearly and they only make two-hundred
Playing sports for entertainment for many people is one thing, but there are many other jobs that should get paid more money such as doctors and teachers. Should we pay athletes more money than they deserve when playing just for a game? Many people think that we’re not overpaying athletes millions of dollars. However, other people have to consider that athletes do get paid more than a million dollars which a president could barely make for two years and the highest paying job which are anesthesiologists, can only make that much in about 4 years. Athletes should get paid thousands of dollars or higher, but do they deserve millions or billions of dollars per