Goodell reduces salary to $0, NFL workers taking pay cuts

[turbinetree]

By BARRY WILNER
yesterday

Commissioner Roger Goodell has reduced his salary to $0 and other NFL employees will be taking pay cuts or furloughs due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Goodell, who makes upward of $30 million a year from salaries and bonuses, voluntarily had his salary reduced this month, a person familiar with the move tells The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the NFL has not announced the move publicly.

The league also is implementing tiered reductions in base salary, beginning with the pay period ending May 22. The reduction will be 5% for workers up to the manager’s level, 7% for directors, 10% for vice presidents, 12% for senior vice presidents, and 15% for executive vice presidents.

In a memo sent to league office staffers, Goodell also said no employee earning a base salary of less than $100,000 will be affected by these reductions, and no employee’s salary will be reduced below $100,000 by the reductions.

https://apnews.com/5bc0217bfb191a2a649657f930bfcbfd

[Takket]

1. He is still overpaid

[turbinetree]

2. Yepper spot on....................

way over paid.....

[Marrah_Goodman]

4. WAY over paid

Cannot stand him.

[Aristus]

5. Still a rather extraordinary gesture, I think.

Most of these rich assholes, if they're not making bank, convince themselves that they are 'losing'; losing what, I don't know.

They seem to think there's a finite amount of success in the world, and if someone has more money, more fame, more success, then they themselves must be losing.

For the vast majority of them, it's a zero-sum game.

[llashram]

3. well, with

a couple of billion in offshore accounts, villas around the world, his jet etc. ect., yeah he can suffer through a few weeks-months-years of no pay. Now us here in the real struggling world...that's a different story, isn't it?

[Arkansas Granny]

6. What a man. What a great sacrifice he's making.

[MagickMuffin]

7. 30 MILLION A YEAR

Wow, and what does his job entail to make that kind of cash?

Question is:

What is he doing with his salary?

Is he donating it to food banks, or other charities that could use that kind of dough?