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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2019 14:17:46 GMT -5
How much do Utica Comets employees make? Utica Comets employees earn an average of $91,751, ranging from $62,763 at the 25th percentile to $111,725 at the 75th percentile, with top earners (the top 10%) earning more than $144,828. Compensation is derived from fewer than 20 profiles, including base salary, equity and bonus. www.paysa.com/salaries/utica-cometsNever knew this! No wonder tickets are expensive. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2019 14:18:59 GMT -5
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Post by kit on Oct 7, 2019 9:55:09 GMT -5
This could be why the Comets allegedly screwed the Shriners (and the disabled children who urgently needed the Shriner's donation for surgery) out of $7000.00 during their final Shrine Circus fund-raiser in 2016 at the Aud. That financial loss ended the 73 year run of the very worthwhile annual Shrine Circus in Utica. This is why I'll never spend another penny to see the Utica Comets again, and do not support the Utica Aud any more.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 7, 2019 10:52:49 GMT -5
Professional sports has become ridiculously expensive to watch, simply because the athletes that participate are so overwhelmingly overpaid. What the hell. If a person wants to make a sports career, they should be paid a liveable wage, but they are not brain surgeons, and there are no Tom Bradys or A-Rods slapping a puck around the Utica Aud.
The incident with the Shriner's Circus was nothing short of disgusting. I wish that the circus could come back to town in the Parkway Armory like it did when I was growing up. I went there to see it, and I took MY kids there to see it. I think there was one year that we went to the old Steuben Armory to see it back in the 50's.
On another sad note, circuses, in general, are not what they used to be. Kudos to those organizations that still sponsor circuses as a fundraiser for charity, but without the elephants, a circus just is not the same, and I am not sure if any circuses still keep and use elephants in their show. There used to be a small circus that would set up in the Riverside Mall parking lot and I once took my youngest son to watch them pitch the tent using the elephants.
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Post by BHU on Oct 7, 2019 18:32:57 GMT -5
This could be why the Comets allegedly screwed the Shriners (and the disabled children who urgently needed the Shriner's donation for surgery) out of $7000.00 during their final Shrine Circus fund-raiser in 2016 at the Aud. That financial loss ended the 73 year run of the very worthwhile annual Shrine Circus in Utica. This is why I'll never spend another penny to see the Utica Comets again, and do not support the Utica Aud any more. I hate hockey & haven't been inside the Aud in years. I didn't know the comets screwed the Shriners but I'm not surprised. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2019 19:35:49 GMT -5
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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 8, 2019 15:01:40 GMT -5
The pay for professional athletes is an interesting question. The NFL is a huge business which makes billions of dollars selling the rights to broadcast their games to TV networks. Those networks make their money by selling ad time during those games.
Kirk Cousins will get paid around $30 million this year to be the starting quarterback for the Vikings. When he signed his contract, it was the largest in the NFL. I think it has been passed now. From all accounts he is a good family man and manages his money wisely. He drives to work in a minivan he purchased used from his grandmother.
For the money he is expected to stand while 300 lb linemen try to run into him and throw a ball accurately to a spot where a receiver will be. He is in his 30s and will likely only play a few more years. Long term his prospects are bad knees and early onset dementia from all the blows to the head.
He gets paid a lot more than someone scanning receipts at Walmart. The number of people in this country who can do his job as good as or better than he can is in the low double digits. The number of people who can scan a receipt is probably 200 million.
Supply and demand.
If I were in Cousin's position, I would negotiate the highest number I could.
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Post by BHU on Oct 8, 2019 20:23:58 GMT -5
MLB teams have a combined wealth of $30 billion dollars. The owners for years had gotten away with paying their atheletes peanuts while they became multi millionaires but that changed when free agency came along & players could offer their services to the highest bidder. But I tend to agree that pro atheletes are these days overpaid which has resulted in high ticket prices. The average Joe can't afford to take the family to a game unless they sit in the nose bleed seats because of high ticket prices. I'm a big Yankees baseball fan but if I didn't have cable i wouldn't be able to watch any of the games. The networks don't carry them, 90% of them are on YES which is owned by the team & is a cable channel. So I'm paying to watch the games thru my cable subscription.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 9, 2019 10:54:10 GMT -5
I don't follow the Yankees closely but I guess the supply and demand comparison would be someone like Aaron Judge. The supply of people who can frequently hit a pitch thrown by a major league pitcher is low. The demand for such people is high. I suspect he will be in an excellent negotiating position for his next contract.
I didn't grow up in New York so until 1984 I had never met a Yankees fan. They were always everyone's favorite team to hate.
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