How much do professional hockey players get paid?

I don't, professional players do.

Not as much as NBA players

There are no females in the nhl

There are currently no professional women's hockey players in North America. The women playing in the Canadian Women's Hockey League and the Western Women's Hockey League are not compensated at all to play. In fact, many of them actually have to pay to play. There are a large number of members of the Canadian and US women's national teams playing in these leagues and they are paid to train by their respective national associations as… Read More

they are paid 250,000 a game

they earn millions of dollars, so I'm sure they can pay for their own vacations

they don't get paid to play in the olympics. it is a privalege to play

no one gets paid in the Olympics unless they are in a commercial brodcast

Well it depends what sport you are talking about. Most professional sports players get paid between 1million and 2millions dollars per year.

All professional hockey players get paid. They just make more money if they play in a world championship. They make more money from their basic salary and from endorsements of products. If they bet on the game they are playing in, they could be in trouble, because betting on the sport you are playing in is usually illegal.

Depends on how big their norks are.

because there are good sportsman

During the 1920s professional football players were paid between $100 and $300 per game. Their salary all depended on position on the team.

I'm assuming you mean the Canadian junior WHL? If so, players in this league, as in all three Canadian junior leagues, are not pros and are not paid a salary, no matter what the NCAA would have you believe. The players are paid a standard allowance, their lodging is taken care of and so on. However, there is no salary structure for players as there is in the professional leagues.

Hockey was an amateur game in the 1880's. No one got paid.

I think they get around £50,000 a year or more

WHL Players are not paid. Players are given small allowances not much more than $50 a day for food. Also players that have cars and can drive are provided with gas money but are responsible for picking up other players and bring them to practice and returning them home after.

I'm afraid that women rugby players do not get paid, therefore they are not professional as it seems they do not command a large enough audience. They are allowed to claim expenses but must do it for the love of the game & country.

In the United States $550,000 is the minimum pay for pro hockey players, but most make at least 1 or 2 million or more. The most in the NHL today is $10,000,000.

Each NHL hockey player gets paid a different amount depending on their contract. In 2014, the salaries range from 9 million to 12 million for top players.

i say soccer players cause they pay even for thier medical reasons and hockey does not and soccer gets paid because we play the whole year nonstop and we get paid everyday and more if they score

No. Canada did not participate in ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo or the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck in protest over the use of professional players by some of the other countries. Canada petitioned the International Olympic Committee to be allowed to use paid players from the National Hockey League since other countries were using players that were paid by their government to play. The petition was denied and Canada refused… Read More

Professional softball players are paid less than professional baseball players because softball is not as popular as baseball. Baseball has a much bigger market in the economy, as proven by the baseball stadiums, playing cards, t-shirts, and hats. Because of all the profits that these things generate, they are able to pay their players more. Softball does not have this kind of publicity, and there for the money that flows into the organizations involved in… Read More

Players who choose to play in the Canadian Hockey League, which includes the WHL, OHL, and QMJHL, are considered professional players since they do receive payment for play. Pay is relatively level for the three leagues, with players getting as little as $50.00 each week. This does not include the food and lodging that is given to the players, nor the perdiem that a player may have while on the road, which is minimal or… Read More

The salary cap in professional softball keeps the range from $7000 to $17,000 per year.

Salaries vary from player to player and are dependent upon individual skill level and veteran status.

No, only professional players get paid.

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i think they have Fixed-incomes because of how much money they make every year.

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On average a solid (top 200) professional tennis player earns about USD$500,000 at the end of his/her career.

The average professional racquetball player earns approximately $40,000 annually.

Soccer players are paid vastly more at the professional levels than rugby players

In the United States, semi-professional soccer players at the low end of the pay scale make about $20,000 per year. Players at the high end make as much as $100,000 per year.

Yes. Only under suspension from the league do players not get paid per game whether they play or not.

Players don't get a salary for playing in the playoffs. However, the league provides an amount of money which increase the further a team goes in the playoffs. This money is divided among the players on the teams.

I am trying to find out much professional athletes get paid in japan. I am trying to find out much professional athletes get paid in japan.

In most Professional sports like rugby, football, basketball, tennis the players get paid And in some cases A LOT!

The average salary for an NHL player was $1.9 Million for the 2007-08 season. I would expect this number to be on the high side given that it is likely skewed by the a number of very highly paid players.

It really does depend on the players calibare. The better you are as a player and the more known you are to the public the more you earn.

Cause of the society we live in. It should be the other way around.

players are paid so little because they can not organize a strike to get paid more it's always the owners that organize lockouts and plus the owners run the league unlike other sports where the players run it like the NBA

there is a minimum salary for nhl players, this changes every year

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NFL players are on salary, which is only partly based on whether they play in games. They are paid on a regular basis as well as with deferred (invested) annuities. The concept of paying professional players after games ended decades ago, although it is still practiced in some semi-professional leagues.

In comparison to American football players and soccer players they certainly are not over paid but for the top players its considered that they may be under paid

Australian Netball players do not get paid as much as European soccer players or American baseball players. Some of the best players only earn $150,000 each year.

Baseball players get paid about 20,000 dollars a game

the top players get paid 30-50 million