08-07-2007, 02:44 PM
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The unions of professional baseball and basketball are often praised by the same pundits who denounce the NFLPA. Major League Baseball's average salary in 1993 was $1.4 million; the MLB average is now $3 million, a 114 percent increase. The NBA's average salary in 1993 was $2.1 million and now is $4.9 million, a 133 percent increase. The average NFL salary was $790,000 in 1993 and will be $1.8 million in 2007, a 128 percent increase. So since 1993, average player earnings in the NFL have increased slightly less than in the NBA and slightly more than in MLB. Average length of career is shorter in the NFL than in the NBA or MLB, but NFL teams employ far more players than either pro basketball or baseball, so these labor-market differences among the major professional sports roughly equal out.
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