| Highly Rewarding | | | | they love, something beyond imagination in the past. |
| Career of any efficient and performing professional is | | | | Statistics show that Tiger Woods made over |
| likely to get a boost in view of the continuous fierce | | | | $111,941,827 in 2007 alone. And if one looks at David |
| competition that takes place for obtaining the services | | | | Beckham, the salary goes to around $38.05 per |
| of such professional athletes. Reason is that the | | | | second, one can only feel dizzy. |
| athlete who is popular and gives good performance | | | | No Uniformity |
| consistently would be high in public popularity scales | | | | However the scenario is not the same everywhere. |
| and this means large amount of money for the | | | | For instance; sports personnel in some of the less |
| sponsors and organizers. Naturally the clubs, sponsors, | | | | glamorous areas of sports zone does not get as |
| organizers and all concerned will like to have the best | | | | much money as their counterparts in glamorous sports |
| of the professional athletes in their camp and they | | | | like Tennis, Football, Cricket, Badminton, Golf, Baseball, |
| would be ready to pay handsomely for that. | | | | and Badminton. |
| | | | However, even in these less glamorous arenas of |
| In the past athletes were more role models than | | | | sports also the earnings are decent and higher in |
| professional money spinners. Greatest players were | | | | comparison to the earnings of most of the specialized |
| paid paltry sums in compared to even what the | | | | job holders in the market. Of course there is no |
| comparatively newer players get today. | | | | uniformity in the professional athletes salaries and they |
| Can one ever compare the compensation paid to | | | | vary widely with type of sports, stature of the |
| Roger Fredericks today on winning a simple ATP | | | | sportsman, and the country where the game or sports |
| tournament in the circuit to what past greats like Rod | | | | is played. Yet the career opportunities that awaits a |
| Lever or Lew Hoad used to get in their hey days | | | | successful professional sportsman, at least for the |
| even on winning the grand slam on the tennis circuit? | | | | period when they excel in the sports is enormous |
| Today a player Tiger Woods or Schumacher gets | | | | though limited by the natural law of age catching up |
| around $1 per second of their time spend in the sports | | | | with them. |
