Athletes and Sports Competitors

Athletes and Sports Competitors pays $66,710 at the midpoint, 33% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.

15,070 people work as Athletes and Sports Competitors. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.

Performing and sport suit people who can separate the quality of the work from its reception, because the two come apart constantly and the money tracks the second one.

We carry no verified training length for Athletes and Sports Competitors — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

From under $36,790 to over $109,880 — $73,090 between the quarters, a 3.0x ratio. A range that wide is not one job with variation in it; it is a label covering several different jobs, and the entry-level version is the one you should cost.

The 25th percentile is $36,790 — $17.68 an hour, and $13,230 below the $50,020 typical American job. Entry-level in this field means that number, not the midpoint, so budget against it.

Avoid it if you need income stability in your twenties, or cannot personally fund the years before the work is paid properly.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 15,070 people employed as Athletes and Sports Competitors; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

A ratio of 3.0x between $36,790 and $109,880 means the top of this occupation and the bottom of it are barely the same labour market. $66,710 is arithmetically the middle and practically a description of very few people.

In cash terms the middle half of Athletes and Sports Competitors runs $36,790 to $109,880 — $73,090 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $66,710.

Getting to $109,880, the 75th percentile, is worth $43,170 a year more than the $66,710 midpoint and $73,090 more than the $36,790 a quarter of Athletes and Sports Competitors settle for.

$43,170 separates $66,710 from the $109,880 top quarter, while only $29,920 separates it from $36,790. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Athletes and Sports Competitors has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $32.07 at the midpoint for Athletes and Sports Competitors, $17.68 at the 25th percentile and $52.82 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.