Wage Gap in Sports

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  1. Hello. My name is Chad Thomas, and today I plan
  2. on presenting to you guys the wage gap in sports.
  3. Uh, specifically, I'm going to be presenting about the W
  4. N b a n b a and the difference in
  5. wages that they make.
  6. This is a big topic that many have discussed.
  7. I know this is a big topic among college campuses,
  8. with many classes that I've had come up in many
  9. classes of many debates.
  10. So I thought this would be a good subject to
  11. go over for wage gaps.
  12. First, I served with the logos and my name, as
  13. I've already introduced myself, so we'll jump right into it
  14. with gender wage gaps for professional basketball being my first
  15. subject here.
  16. Uh, the way you get professional basketball players is significantly
  17. higher, but that is because of the revenue generated by
  18. their league.
  19. This is an argument that many have fought and lost
  20. this argument because people feel like women are not fairly
  21. paid compared to the men.
  22. But that is not as fair argument as you would
  23. think. As you're going to see later in this video,
  24. I'm going to discuss how they are making similar percentages
  25. of actual revenue that is brought in NBA players in
  26. their pay.
  27. Here we have some numbers this from 2000 and eight
  28. season. How NBA players have recently collected 50% of leagues
  29. initial revenue with while they produced approximately 300 million per
  30. season, and the players are receiving about 50% of that,
  31. which is $7.7 million You're going to see in the
  32. next slide how the W N B A is producing
  33. less than that with revenue.
  34. Here we have the W N B A numbers and
  35. their pay.
  36. WNBA's recently collecting 29% of lead that initial revenue.
  37. Um, W N B A Players are producing approximately $5
  38. million per season in revenue, and they're receiving 21% of
  39. that revenue, which is lower than the NBA.
  40. So this is where the argument gets, um, kind of
  41. tricky. Yes, they're making less revenue coming in, but they're
  42. not receiving the same percentage as the NBA players are
  43. of the revenue they're actually bringing in.
  44. So this could be the argument for the W N
  45. B A.
  46. Players do need to be paid more, but they are
  47. not going to be on equal grounds as far as,
  48. uh hey, which I'll discuss a little later on.
  49. Next, we go to individual player pay indifference here.
  50. So for 2018 season, the NBA brought in about 8.76
  51. billion while the W M A brought in roughly 7.4
  52. billion. This doesn't seem like too big of a number
  53. of different.
  54. Um, it is as this number ends in billion.
  55. It took me a second round my head around as
  56. I thought.
  57. These numbers are actually a little closer than I thought,
  58. going into researching this.
  59. See here.
  60. All right.
  61. Stephen Curry is labeled as the top player in the
  62. NBA. This is known by many people.
  63. Um, he is making around $37.5 million a year again.
  64. This was 2018.
  65. I know there's been some big contracts signed here recently,
  66. but we're for research versus I did this on 2018.
  67. Uh, Steph Curry is making 37.5 million a year, and
  68. you're going to see in this next slide Jurassic change,
  69. as we have do wanna Bonner, who is making 215,000
  70. year roughly, um and so here here begs the argument.
  71. Why is that?
  72. Is this from revenue?
  73. If this is the highest paid w N b a
  74. player, she should be making more than that.
  75. If the revenues.
  76. Yes, they're significantly lower for W N B A, but
  77. they are still reasonably high.
  78. This comes into percentage made off of revenue, which is
  79. next slide.
  80. I'll discuss a little further pay, equal equality over sports,
  81. the management solution.
  82. So I wrote, even though the individual dollar amount received
  83. by the player will not be the same percentage out
  84. of the initial revenue should be the same in both
  85. leaks something I definitely agree with, um, something I am
  86. a strong something.
  87. I would take a strong stance on something.
  88. I argue, um, when this.
  89. Anytime this debate comes up, as I mentioned earlier, it
  90. does come up quite a bit that, yes, they will
  91. make more or less than the NBA players just off
  92. of revenue.
  93. But the percentage of what they make should equal out.
  94. So here I put the NBA players will make a
  95. smaller individual mount compared to NBA players, since they have
  96. significantly smaller revenue.
  97. But the NBA players and NBA players should be cut
  98. the same percentage of each league's total revenue.
  99. This is what I've been speaking about the whole video.
  100. That was kind of my conclusion here that overall, I
  101. think that those numbers do need to come together a
  102. little bit.
  103. As in the beginning there, I talked about how NBA
  104. players are received about 50% of their revenue while W
  105. N B A players received about 21%.
  106. Uh, so just something that needs to get a little
  107. closer. Um, in my opinion, to make it fair, while
  108. they're never gonna be the same, it will make things
  109. a little more fair, all right.
  110. And we have our sources here, right?
  111. And there's the sources and I appreciate you watching and
  112. listening and let me know what you guys think in
  113. the comments, if you have any, uh, thank you for
  114. listening