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One of the most popular topics to date has been hockey salaries.
Thus, I have decided to expand this into a more general topic – hockey salaries compared with salaries in other sports.
To begin with, I have looked up the average players’ salaries for all of the four North American major league sports.
I will be working on this topic every week, so if you are interested, please check back with us, plus make any suggestions – which direction the research should go, etc.
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Our union’s members enjoy the highest salaries of any labor organization in the world. The average NBA player’s salary is almost $4 million and within the next few seasons will likely exceed $5 million.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
This year’s Opening Day salary figure is $3.15 million, up 7.1 percent from last year’s season-opening figure of $2.94 million.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
The average annual NHL player salary is slightly more than $1.9M, the “highest in league history,” and NHLPA Exec Dir Paul Kelly predicted that in ’08-09 the average “will surpass $2[M].”
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Under Upshaw’s leadership, players’ salaries have risen to an average of $1.4 million annually.
Please note that both basketball’s and football’s averages are skewered by the number of athletes playing in their leagues.
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