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Monday, 13 January 2003
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National Average, K-12 Teacher Salary $44,993
National Average, NFL Player Salary $1,169,470

Running around for a couple of hours a day with a ball is twenty-six times more important than educating the children of this country, if salary is a measure of worth.

And those figures are two years old; I wonder what the disparity is today.

Posted by godfrey (link)
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I know a lot of teachers who would love to be making that national average. And as for that NFL average salary, that's for all the players, the guys who actually run around with the ball are probably averaging twice that.

What a great country.
Posted by Lunchbox on 14 Jan 2003 10:16
Yup. The above figure for "teachers" also includes supervisors and principals. And teachers in the southern states tend to get about $5000/year less than the national average, judging from the individual states' education department pages I found while looking up those figures.
Posted by Godfrey on 14 Jan 2003 10:26
Throw ME the damn ball!
Posted by Karen on 14 Jan 2003 11:44
Which makes we wonder, "If we have the WNBA, Women's Soccer, and Women's Baseball, why don't we have the WNFL?"
Posted by Darren on 14 Jan 2003 12:30
Actually, there is a women's football league; it started about 2 years ago, and I believe there is a Tampa team.
Posted by Lunchbox on 15 Jan 2003 10:22
First of all football is more than 2 hours a day. it is a hard demanding job and if you havent been through dont talk about it. And there are to many emotions in football for women to deal with and leave what happens on the field there
Posted by Dale on 14 Nov 2004 21:38
"Job"? You so funny.
Posted by Godfrey on 15 Nov 2004 05:36