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Salary/winnings Endorsements 1: Cristiano Ronaldo: Association football: Portugal: $136 million: $46 million: $90 million 2: Lionel Messi: Association football: Argentina: $130 million: $65 million: $65 million 3: Kylian Mbappé: Association football: France: $120 million: $100 million: $20 million 4: LeBron James: Basketball: United States ...
This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing. Athletes in individual sports , such as golf , tennis , table tennis , boxing , kickboxing , and MMA , are not employed by a team and usually earn money primarily ...
Athletes are some of the most well-compensated people in the world. After Dak Prescott's huge contract, who are the highest-paid athletes in 2024? ... Athletes' salaries are among the most ...
Pitcher Nolan Ryan was the first player to earn an annual salary above $1 million, signing a $4.5 million, 4-year contract with the Houston Astros in 1979. [6] Kirby Puckett and Rickey Henderson signed the first contracts which paid an average of $3 million a year in November 1989.
While NHL players, golfers, and tennis players are all highly paid, their salaries have not caught quite up with pro baseball, basketball, and football. The highest-earning athletes in American ...
In one of the increasingly urgent peculiarities of big-time college sports, the financial fates of college basketball players and their football brethren will have an outsized impact on America's ...
Larry Bird became the first player to earn $5 million or more with a salary of $7,070,000 in the 1991–92 season. Magic Johnson became the first player to earn $10 million or more in the 94–95 season with a salary of $14,660,000. Patrick Ewing became the first player to earn $15 million or more in the 95–96 season with a salary of $18,724,000.
As of 1911 the average salary for the about 500 players in Major League Baseball was slightly more than $2,000 a season ($65,400 today). The star hitter Ty Cobb received $9,000 a season ($294,300 today), and sold automobiles in the off season.