Education How long would it take you to earn a top footballer’s salary?

I don't believe the question of whether you care or not is relevant.

 

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True dat.

 

Well as some has mentioned - supplies and demands. I actually wrote a pretty long, and pretty well researched, essay about the commercial interrest in sports and how it has affected everything. Did you know that until the 70s professional athletes, aka living from their sports, weren't allowed in the olympics? Crazy right...

Anyways... With the salary of what I plan to study it'd take me roughly 400 years to earn what Ronaldo makes in one

EDIT: According to the site Gareth Bale earns more than Ronaldo. Anyone knows if that's true?

 

I couldn't care less about how much anyone earns which is why I've not bothered to disclose my years based sum.

There are people that will think that as that's just life. I'm synical and I hate most of the world. As for wage discussion, regardless of how it's sugar coated it's still a bragging right one way or another be it intended or not.

I'm a firm believer that hard work should reap reward but and fair play to those who have achieved it (I'm not poor by any means) however I see police, firemen/women, nurses, armed forces etc work themselves to the bone and they earn hardly anything relative to the work they do vs my own job which makes me a little sad.

That's my issue with the footballers and as for large wages, hard earned or not the spread between poor and well off is just massive and getting worse as the years go by.

 

Its simple supply and demand really. There are lots of people that are willing and capable of being nurses and firemen. There are fewer people that can kick a football ball as well as a professional footballer.

 

On your current salary, it would take you 1321 years to earn Cristiano Ronaldo's annual wage.

 

But also: skilfully kicking a football across a field is considered to be more important than nursing or fire fighting. People will pay more for entertainment than for the necessities of life --especially when they don't yet experience the need for those necessities. Unfortunately nobody appreciates a nurse or firefighter until they actually need one.

I proposed a formula once that explains how much people earn. I can't find it now, but it went along the lines of: a salary is the product of how important the people are that you serve and how hard it would be to replace you.

 

QFTW

 

I don't think so. How many nurses salaries can you pay with a sky sports subscription and a football jersey?

 

I don't really think many people would consider it a more important, even people with a vested interest.

I think it is still a product of what you say, it's just the equation is massively skewed by the last factor you mention.

What the do may be relatively unimportant, but there are only maybe one in millions (or even 10 or 100s of millions) that can do what the highest paid footballers do for a living. That and the fact millions will each pay relatively small amounts to see what they are able to do, which obviously give them huge value.

 

On your current salary, it would take you 24668 years to earn Cristiano Ronaldo's annual wage.

 

All of them together? You could build another hospital.

 

Infinity billion years...

 

On your current salary, it would take Cristiano Ronaldo 563 years to earn your annual wage.






A man can dream...

 

To be honest Nexxo let's not forget that football isn't "just a game". It is one of the only things you can talk with anyone anywhere in the world about. Be it in Brazil, Uzbekistan, Oman etc. Also it's one of the only things where people are able to put aside their political/geographical differences. It might not be totally compareable to that of a firefighter/nurse/doctor, but it is not always just entertainment

 

Your logic is way off. People pay much greater amounts than the cost of a jersey and sky sports to run the country via taxes. What they choose to do with the remainder doesn't reflect their opinions on how the government should split the takings.

 

Except if your talking to me

 

Or me.

 

That is brilliant! That's how I remember I felt watching the LCS series for like my first year of playing the game