Professional Athletes versus Professional Educators

[Keith Broaders]

Half of the 750 Major League Baseball players have salaries of over $1,300,000  per year with 177 players receiving $10,000,000 per season. and 50 players make over $20,000,000 per yaer.

The minimum salary for an MLB player is nearly $800,000 while the average minimum salaryy for a first year public school teacher  is less than $50,000.

While the average public school teacher is currently making an annual salary of  a $71,000 per year, there are 177 Major League players that makes  over $50,000 per game.

Professional athletes are extremely well paid entertainers while many excellent educators are vastly under paid,

Shohei Ohtani has a contrct paying him $70 million per year which is equal to the combined salaries of 1,000 public school teachers. Ohtani receive over $400,000 per game while the average teacher is paid less than $400 per day.

A averaage teacher earns about $400 per day, while an  even mediocre MLB players make an average of over $8,000 per game.

Teachers  salaries should be based on merit rather than on seniority, If MLB salaries were based on years of experience the highest paid players would likely be the oldest rather than the best plaeys,

For a public school teacher to receive as much as Shoehei Ohtani receives in a year they would need  work 8 hours a day for 100 years.

[Keith Broaders]

There are 30 Major League Baseball teams were required by the stetes to  donate an amount equal to 10% of their total payroll to support local charities in their communities it would be a

The San Francisco Giants should be required tp pay a pay roll tax equal to 10% of their total payroll to Bay Area charities, The Giants would essentially donate  an amount equal to 10% of their Payroll . In the case of the Giants they would contribite just under $20 million dollars.

 The Dodgers would be taxed  nearly $40 million dollars while the Mets would kick in $33 million dollars and the Yankees would need to contribute $29 million dollars to local charities.

If the players were required to donate 10% of their earnings, the total windfall to local charities would double.