How do NFL owners pay their executives?

Does the NFL or NFL teams user SPM tools (I think player incentives would be interesting to manage based on their contracts)

How much money do the owners actually make after paying out millions of dollars for 52 to 53 player active players + practice squad players per year?

Regards

a) The bonus is part of the collective

b) or that it is a bonus that had a significant benefit (65%!) at one time, but has less applicability now.

In other words rust has crept in :-)

As with any planning, sometimes you have to blow off the dust and see if it is still providing value!

Regards,

Elliot

1) I think that’s a great point. Apparently the average salary was only 23,000 in 1970 (worth around 115,000 in today’s dollars). http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/22/mvp-nfl-bargain-biz-cx_tvr_1222nflmvp.html A bonus of 15,000 back then represented a much larger bonus as a percentage of the income (65%)! That sounds like a lot… maybe somebody else will be able to confirm this.

2) I have been thinking about that too. The rings apparently generally sell for $3,500 to $20,000. http://www.sptimes.com/News/012601/SuperBowl2001/Getting_the_ring_can_.shtml
The NFL contributes $5000 towards it and the owners pay the rest. But even if the rings were worth much more, I still don’t think that many players would depart with it unless they were in a very dire need.

1) I wonder if the early years bonus was significantly larger as a per-centage of income?

2) The event has changed over the last 40 years. You would think that the main incentive now is the publicity, the championship rings (which probably cost more than the bonus) and the other symbols of that success

I didn’t manage to find this information. I’ll post it up as soon as it becomes public. The few thousand dollar difference in the bonus doesn’t make much of a difference for my point.

But I would have a guess…

Looking at the trends, we can see that bonus never went down. Also, XL and XLI had the same amounts, as well as XXXVIII and XXXIX… Actually, many years work in “pairs”. Also, given the economic outlook, I wouldn’t be surprised of the actual amounts for the XLIII Super Bowl to be $78,000/$40,000 as well.