Question Asked: How Much Money Do WWE Wrestlers Make?
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Jan 14th, 2009 |
From what I’m reading online, it varies greatly depending on what your “role” is. The WWE has varying levels of “stardom”, from low-level no name wreslters, to the main eventers.
The low-level wresleters, depending on how often they work, and who they wrestle can make in upwards of $100,000 per year.
The mid-level wreslters make in upwards of $250,000.
The main eventers (John Cena, HHH, Randy Orton, etc.) pull in $1 million plus per year.
These statistics don’t include DVD sales, or any endorsements that they do.
These numbers may seem pertty high, considering the number of wrestlers there are in the WWE. But let’s figure out how much money the WWE makes, just on every day ticket sales.
The WWE, technically owns a few different big wrestling brands, namely ECW, and the WWE. There are three live events per week, ranging from 30,000 seats to 65,000 seats, depending on the venue. According to the statistics I found online, it’s very rare for a WWE event to not sell out. So let’s figure out the average per event. We’ll assume the average stadium holds 45,000 people, and tickets average $45 (obviously there are more expensive tickets, and less expensive tickets. I’m assuming an average here for the sake of simplicity.)
45,000 x 45 = $2,025,000 per event
2025000 x 3 = $6,075,000 per week
6075000 x 52 = $3,159,00,000 per year.
This is only the standard weekly events, and doesn’t include merchandise, or pay per view events. That’s three billion dollars a year, at the bare minimum. Seems like a pretty thriving business to me.
Making three billion dollars a year assumingly makes it pretty easy to pay out hundreds of thousands (and millions) to the players in the events.
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June 5th, 2009 at 12:10 am
I’m not trying to be jerk, but there’s a few things missing in your equation.
Rental- The WWE has to pay to rent the venue for the promotion. Not only do they have to pay rent, they also have to pay for electricity and security costs.
Promotion – They have to pay for local and (in most cases) national advertising.
Transportation – They pay to transport the equipment and wrestlers to the venues, Plus pay the drivers who drive them!
My dad owns a transportation company and by my best guess, I would say they spend upwards of 50 million a year, just to transporting the equipment & wrestlers!
From WWE
WWE posted revenue of $107.8 million for the first quarter ended 31 March 2009, down from $162.6 million a year ago.
Operating income was $16.7 million as compared to $27.1 million in the prior year quarter. NET INCOME nearly halved to $10.3 million compared to $19.5 million in the prior year quarter.
2008 Revenue: $ 526.5 Million
2008 Profit: 45.4 Million
Simply put: They make nowhere close to a billion dollars, let alone three billion a year!