2011-2014 NFL Minimum Base Salaries

This is SOOOO sad. Grown men playing a game make more as a minimum salary for 6 months than a beginning teacher would make in 10 years of taking care of our most prized possessions.

Also if you think about this in terms of what it does to some of their bodies/minds and the fact that some of them may be in nursing homes by the age of 40 due to concussive brain injuries, they don’t make nearly enough.

It takes more brains and dedication to become a doctor than a football player. Unlike football players, doctors and teachers actually help society. It sickens me what American society has become: a bunch of jock worshipers. How can a man that runs with a ball across a field make more than a life saving heart surgeon?

I agree. Let’s find a teacher that teachs a subject really well, put them on the internet and pay them like a rock star. Then all the average and below average teachers can improve the service at the local fast food place, because, by definition one-half of all teachers are below average.

Hmm don’T forget about the tens of thousands of athletes that don’t make it. Would you choose a profession where the average longevity is 3 years with possible life long injuries, no guarantee of success after years of effort trying to enter as a professional for a meager 5 figure salary? If you take the minimum first 3 years and stretch them over 30, you’re only talking $50000 a year. Last time i checked teachers don’t get injured on a regular basis in a class room so think before you write next time.

Football does alot to help kids lol! Character building; working as a team which they will do in real life at a job. Keeping them out of gangs to where they arn’t a menus to society. It teaches them alot of skills! How to rebound when your down. How to accept defeat. Leadership, self discipline, courage, and how to get over being nervous! Have a school teacher teach you that they cant! How does a teacher make a kids life better? By saying hey im a teach you a hour a day and hope you get it but at the same time teach 35 other students and if you need help get a tutor. Yeah Great job there! Teachers are there to do one thing go off a curriculum and produce test numbers! Why should a teacher make more then 55,000 a year? They do nothing but teach 35 students on a class board not one on one. Then you gotta hope you kid actually studies to even do good i.e teach there own self how to do it. If the teacher is so great why do our kids need us to teach them cause their teacher cant why do 50% percent of kids fail there state required test? If the teachers were so good and worth so much then the number should be half that take New York only 54% passed the state test scores great teaching in that state we should pay them 80,000 a year with those test score! Get real and look at statics and numbers and actually know what your talking about before you state an opinion. Just goes to show what great teaching has taught you.

You uniformed halfwit. From your message riddled with errors, it would seem you should have had more interest in who yor teachers had to say. What do teachers do? As one, let me share. We spend countless hours planning ways to help struggling students, while enriching those who are redy to move beyond. We plan individualized lessons for students. No, we DO NOT just teach to the entire room. We help mold and shape the behavior of students. We parent and nurture when unfortunately some parents cannot or will not. We encourage growth, independence, and self confidence. We tutor those students who struggle. We spend our lunch, breaks, and after school hours with students or working on our lessons and interventions. Not every teacher is great. Some are pretty terrible, but most are highly qualified, intelligent, effective professionals. The $30,000 I made after five years on the job and a five year college degree is frankly insulting and unfortunately isn’t a wage that truly supports a family. Perhaps it’s time you gave “your own self” a bit more info before running your mouth.

Can someone help me to understand a particular player’s salary?

Mike Kafka signed a 2.25MIL contract ($465K guaranteed) in the 2010 draft, with Philly (sorry; let’s say that it was with the Steelers!).

He just cleared waivers with no teams claiming him, “with two years of minimum salary remaining on his 4-year contract”.

Plugging the above info into the above chart, how much money did Kafka receive (before taxes) for the years 2010- 2011?

Thanks!

Soo verry true but y is that?? There’s nothing Amazing about NFL players either -_-