According to a letter released Monday by U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro, the federation paid out $34.1 million in salary and game bonuses to the women between 2010 and 2018 as opposed to $26.4 million paid to the men.
U.S. soccer is paying the women more - while losing money on them.
The men's team actually received more money overall than the women's team since 2010 due to the fact that bonuses paid by FIFA for World Cup appearances are waaaaay more generous for men's teams than for women's.
The federation pays U.S. women's team members per-game payments for national-team play along with professional-team salaries for playing in the National Women's Soccer League, as all 23 members of the women's World Cup team do.
The women negotiated a salary-plus-bonuses scheme, the men got a more complicated structure in which you're paid "By training camp call-ups, game appearances and through performance bonuses." The bonuses are more generous on the men's side, but the men don't have guaranteed pay like the women do.
Then that's the whole debate here, isn't it? How much should public demand influence the players' pay relative to achievement? "All U.S. soccer proved was that the women must consistently win at the highest level to approach what the men make while mired in mediocrity and underachievement," said sports journalist Tanya Ray Fox, referring to the near-parity between what the women's and men's teams received from U.S. soccer since 2010.
If there are more eyeballs on the men for their inferior product, why shouldn't they receive more for their mediocrity? Judi Dench is a better actor than The Rock, but if the latter can drum up more box office than the former, why shouldn't he receive a bigger check? Like all sports, soccer is ultimately entertainment.
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/07/30/u-s-soccer-weve-paid-womens-team-weve-paid-mens-team-since-2010-even-though-bring-much-less-revenue/
U.S. soccer is paying the women more - while losing money on them.
The men's team actually received more money overall than the women's team since 2010 due to the fact that bonuses paid by FIFA for World Cup appearances are waaaaay more generous for men's teams than for women's.
The federation pays U.S. women's team members per-game payments for national-team play along with professional-team salaries for playing in the National Women's Soccer League, as all 23 members of the women's World Cup team do.
The women negotiated a salary-plus-bonuses scheme, the men got a more complicated structure in which you're paid "By training camp call-ups, game appearances and through performance bonuses." The bonuses are more generous on the men's side, but the men don't have guaranteed pay like the women do.
Then that's the whole debate here, isn't it? How much should public demand influence the players' pay relative to achievement? "All U.S. soccer proved was that the women must consistently win at the highest level to approach what the men make while mired in mediocrity and underachievement," said sports journalist Tanya Ray Fox, referring to the near-parity between what the women's and men's teams received from U.S. soccer since 2010.
If there are more eyeballs on the men for their inferior product, why shouldn't they receive more for their mediocrity? Judi Dench is a better actor than The Rock, but if the latter can drum up more box office than the former, why shouldn't he receive a bigger check? Like all sports, soccer is ultimately entertainment.
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/07/30/u-s-soccer-weve-paid-womens-team-weve-paid-mens-team-since-2010-even-though-bring-much-less-revenue/
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