Your mileage is going to vary on a lot of the Tom Hanks, Disposable Lead of Dopey â80s Comedies, entries, but this one is definitely one of the silliest, dumbest and, amusingly, most eternal: There are movies from this time period that Hanks can hide from now, but this is definitely not one of them.
For example the median expected annual pay for a typical Professional Athlete in the United States is $32,981, so 50% of the people who perform the job of Professional Athlete in the United States are expected to make less than $32,981. Source: HR Reported data as of March 31, 2017. Salary. Salary + Bonus.
In the NFL, the median salary is approximately $770,000 -- about 40 percent of the average. In the NBA, using USA Today salary figures for the 2009-10 season, the estimated median salary was about $2.33 million.FL : $1.9 million (2010). As far as what an average athlete might earn in the various sports, those salaries are, in fact, apples-to-apples. They simply are the figures arrived at by dividing the total player compensation for each league by the number of participants in a given season.