$110 million paid to Tiger Woods in 2010.
The average professional athlete salary in the United States is around 3.3 million per year.
If you are Emily Heskey then nothing
Starting salary for professional athlete is $500,000 a year on average.
athletic
In 1998 by contract Michel Jordan's salary from the Chicago Bulls was 36 million dollars. There were no incentives performance related clauses regarding this payout. By far no professional US athlete had a salary greater then the 18 million dollars.
Athlete who does it for a living.
Jim Thorpe
1,000,000,000
$482,000
My question is,"If you took all professional athletes in every sport and combined their salaries, not bonuses, just salaries, and averaged them out for each athlete what would it be?
probably Trey Johnson of Cavs....i saw his salary was only $46k....pretty weak for a professional athlete
That athlete is called a professional.