Who are most overpaid sportsmen and women?

the USA womens football team

All of them but footballers at the top followed by golfers.

Anybody playing for prize money is hardly overpaid as anybody good enough
can win the pot.

Liv golfers on salary are likely overpaid.

Wimmin tennis players getting same pot as men, overpaid.

Footballers earn their corn, again the money is there for anybody.

Boxers, hmmm?, yes and no, anybody can get in ring, but
Saudis buying exposure sure does bump up the prize pot at
top end.

Usain Bolt got paid a shed load of money for running for 9.8 seconds

getting paid for being good at your hobby, they're all overpaid.

just think lottery funding.

The footy players do the entertaining, i'm glad they get big money. Usually it's only the fat cat bosses making huge money

Basketball and Baseball players, how anyone can watch that dross is beyond me, booorrrriiiinnng

But they do and that's what generates the big bucks

The Gargoyle aka Erling Haaland. Unbelievable that this lump of Norwegian Wood is on 500K a week at Man City. 

20 teams in the prem, 25 players per squad. thats 500 players.all millionaires by the time theyre done. if your ranked 250 in the WORLD at golf, you dont even get to tee it up.

It’s a pretty fair viewpoint TTT.

I think it's great they get paid huge money. I can't think of another industry where talent is rewarded so handsomely. Usually it's only the top guys coining it in to that extent. These guys in the Premier League are the elite and have worked immensely hard at their craft.

BEN PEARSON (no ive not heard of him either) plays for Stoke City in the Championship £28,000 A WEEK, thats £1,456,000 a year

Intensive care nurse. SAVES LIVES on their 12 and half hour shift, day or night, bank holidays. (no subs allowed). 50K A YEAR, less 40% tax, and pays to park their car at work.

I take it you're not an accountant TTT

I'm not a fan of Boxing, Golf or tennis but I don't think the participants are overpaid because they are playing for a pot available.
Stick to football any player who doesn't live up to the expectations of their contract is overpaid IMO.

I was going to say cricket bowlers are the most overpaid but most are on a fixed salary.

£66k for each and every first round LOSER at Wimbledon.  Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, etc; all turned up, thrilled and entertained, whilst winning it for nowt!

no expert in tennis i can assure you LH, but do you have to qualify at certain level for 66 bags ?, i don't know honestly

I would think so but like you I’m not a student.  A hell of a prize for the achievement though.

Jake Paul by a distance

In sport there is no hiding place.  There's no faking it.  No subjectivity, or privilege.  The best are the best.

One exception for me is boxing.  5 or 6 world titles is ofc nonsense, but sums up the sport.  Top boxers fight very rarely and when they do, for the most part they pick and choose their opponent.  You can often fake it as the world's best or one of the best by manipulating your choice of opponents, and by the number of different titles.  Drug taking has been rife and tackling it is years behind other sports.  Even the press seem to "let it go"  Corruption and match fixing at amateur level has been rife too.

Top level Football managers .What other people can get sacked for being crap and walk away with millions because of their contract and then get another management position within weeks . These people should be paid on results basis only .

Earnings reflect estimated totals from May 1, 2024, to May 1, 2025

Stephen Curry (NBA, Golden State Warriors) 
Earnings: $156 million  .


Dak Prescott (NFL, Dallas Cowboys) 
Earnings: $137 million 


LeBron James (NBA, Los Angeles Lakers) 
Earnings: $133.8 million 


Patrick Mahomes (NFL, Kansas City Chiefs) 
Earnings: $86.8 million 


Shohei Ohtani (MLB, Los Angeles Dodgers) 
Earnings: $85 million (reported elsewhere as $102.5 million) 


CeeDee Lamb (NFL, Dallas Cowboys) 
Earnings: $66.7 million 


Joel Embiid (NBA, Philadelphia 76ers) 
Earnings: $60.4 million 


Aaron Judge (MLB, New York Yankees) 
Earnings: ~$55 million (estimated, based on prior years and contract) 


Jared Goff (NFL, Detroit Lions) 
Earnings: $85.6 million 


Trevor Lawrence (NFL, Jacksonville Jaguars) 
Earnings: $80.5 million

The audience figures of the sport are always going to dictate the wages. I think that's where the argument for equal pay in women's football falls down.

As a well known incoming Scottish entrepreneur/businessman club chairman once said on checking the books, and he was the first I ever heard asking, and surveying the financial history - "where did all the money go"?
In the days when the Jimmy Greaves's of the game were bussing it to home matches and players were paid like modern day immigrant farmlands Chairmen were robbing the game blind.
These people must have pocketed quite colossal sums.