Is it fair??? Sports person gets more pay than hardworking careers. Is it fair??

I can understand doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who have gone through university and taken training to get more pay then the ordinary person. I really cannot understand why teachers who work hard, also gone through university, and have that much knowledge to get less pay then a sports legend. And most of those sports heroes fritter away their money. So it is with them easy come, easy go. So it really is unfair.

I think that it is fair that sports people get paid that much money because they also worked hard for it. They made a good career choice that pays a lot. This is the truth for me. I am not a sportsman or anything like that.

I thought the same thing about actors, atleast footballers and people in sports risk their lives doing stuff physically where they can get hurt and lose their career. But with most actors they don't take that chance the stunt doubles do. And the actors get the millions while the stunt double who risk their lives get a skimpy little sum in comparison. I love watching the movies and shows yeah, who doesn't but to know that an actor made up to 40 millions dollars for it..while others are out here busting their backs for a living to even put food on the table. I think that they shouldn't get so much for just acting..

Certainly it does not seem fair. Many professional athletes are paid an unreasonable amount compared to regular jobs that take much more training. On the other hand, we do not all choose the same careers, and the pay range varies a lot for different careers. Look, here is an athlete. Here is a team looking for an athlete. The team has a lot of money (because of what the fans pay). The team likes the athlete, they hire him and all sign a contract. The contract includes his huge salary. There is nothing wrong or unethical about that. It is just the way the system is. If you accept that professional athletes can make unreasonable salarys, then you must also accept that Corporate CEO's will make what seem to be unreasonable salaries. Life isn't fair and the income and lifestyle of all people in the country will never be equal for all.

What is fair in life? It is just like a movie star getting paid more than a working stiff. Has to do with their popularity. If the sport person plays well then he and his fellow players are popular and he gets big bucks. Same deal. Works some what the same way with workers. If they work well they usually get a raise and sometimes go up the corporate ladder.

There is not discussing what is fair vs what is right. See I had a discussion the other day where I was explaining a Police officer here starting pay is $26 thousand a year, at a city where crime and danger is likely daily. So round abut he gets o abut $12 per hour to risk his life daily. So there is no logic in trying to figure out why people do what they do, as our own City won't entertain such talk, apparently since these officers get so little.

No it is a symptom of a deeply sick society, I am a doctor for such sickness but the patient will not take the medicine all the best urban

No, I wouldn't say that this if fair at all and I remember my father saying that the world was upside down with the way some people seemed to attract wealth in that way. My philosophy is somewhat different though. I would say that of course life is not fair, nobody ever said that it was fair. We need to put effort in and sometimes a little luck will come our way. The secret is, to recognize that luck of an opporutunity and seize it with both hands. _Derek

they only play for ten or fifteen years maybe. on age 35, they will quit to play. maybe that is why they paid that high. my view on this, i wish that i am a great football player so i can make a lot of money

Sometimes i think that sports figures are overpaid. Many people work hard all of their lives and don't have the money that a sports figure makes in no time at all. You have to wonder if sports figures really deserve all that they are given for what they do. What about the people who constantly struggle for what they have?

I have no doubts about it. It is not easy to play sports as they are also getting tired just like the regular employees that are working hard. The talent is one thing they are getting paid of course their skills which is also hard to earn. They are also working hard in the sense of physical activities and more so they are practicing much. They also came into hardships like failing and sometimes they could get easily encounter physical injuries. In other terms it is not also easy to be in sports. Sports is actually much hard especially when you are competing with other people where you have to be competent and much skilled especially in winning. Unlike in other careers especially doctors, their services is not about competing all the time with other doctors but help the patient on how to cure their illness.

Well, I do think they get paid way too much, some salaries just do not make sense at all to me (for instance, Wayne Rooney's latest pay raise), but they would never get paid that much if they did not make more than what they get paid for their teams (who charge a lot for tickets to the games, for all kinds of sports memorabilia, etc.). So in that way, it makes sense. If you can generate that much money, you should see some of that money too. And the money in that business is huge. But yeah, many of them still get paid way too much, I do agree.

Well, according to me they don't deserve this much of income at all, does not matter if they play for 10 years or 1 month. I don't consider football as a talent. According to me a hardworking person should be paid more than a sports player. It's just not good to have low incomes for sports persons. Happy myloting. Regards, harry, :-)

I dont think is it unfair because sports person also have great deals of pressure because of the fans. Some career jobs have high paying employers it depends may be on how one performs his or her job and of course the position you are sitting in.

I don’t know whether it’s fair or not but I guess sports people do work extremely hard as they keep up the training for their chosen sport which they can really work at until their mid-thirties the most and then they need to retire. I suppose it doesn’t seem fair when you compare sport to say, medicine but there is a lot of money in the sports arena and that’s just the way it is. The athletes do work hard for their money, I believe...

Hi kiddo - I have no issues with that. Actually - they spend quite a bit on the lifestyle that is expected of them. First and foremost very few of them reach the levels where they become very famous. They have to train non-stop which costs them quite a bit. If they choose to stay in a hotel that is not the best, the press would label them as miserly. If they dont tip the waiters well, they will be sneered at. Likewise, they cant bargain on anything as it would look odd. For everything - they need a secretary, who may or may not be reliable. Too much of exercising leads to health problems in later stages of life. That costs a lot of money. They have simply too many problems I dont want in my life.

It is wrong that all sports person are paid more. Who we know a highly paid are the top most category on their field. In all field top category people are highly paid. We can't generalize all the people. Some of them have special skill and quality. Special deserve special pay. In the multinational company too there are some people who are paid attractive salary. We even not imagine who much they are paid who are special for those company. To be a world figure in any category any must have special skill. How much trouble have to face to be the best one. So it is not unfair that special are pail specially.

hi renhard, i think this is just ok. they specialize on it and bring honor to the institution they belonged to. :-) happy mylotting. :-)

I think we have all noticed how high sports players and movie stars get paid for the little work they seem to do. We don't know what kind of commitments these type of people have with these jobs but I guarantee if they are getting paid a huge some of money and on contract there must be things they HAVE to do that normal people wouldn't. For example, wrestlers, sports players and movie stars have to keep fit and look good. Wrestlers and fighters have to watch their weight because a few pounds can make a huge difference in what class of fight they entered in. If they are use to lightweight fighting and ended up gaining weight and got bumped up to middle class then that fighter is now fighting out of his league because he is fighting against heavy people who are used to the weight. Sometimes the movie stars have to do some pretty crazy stuff themselves just to get or hold a part in a movie or television show so again we don't know what goes on really when they get those huge checks. I totally see where you are coming from and I understand the fustration because so many of us real people work so hard and so long to just barley get by most of the time when these players and movie stars seem to do a few weeks of work and get millions for it. Even though they are never really in danger or anything like the typical person would experience in a day.

No it's not fair. they get to do what they want and still get more pay. and they even become superstars.