Roger Goodell Makes $35 Million Running A Non-Profit

[SunSeeker]

Roger Goodell made $35 million running a small non-profit known as the National Football League in 2013. For those who don’t know about it, the league, commonly referred to as the “NFL,” is a professional American football league in which players try to avoid getting “tackled,” or taken down, before they reach the goal zone.

Goodell’s compensation is down from $44 million in 2012, but it still makes him “one of the highest paid chief executives in America,” according to The New York Times. For comparison’s sake, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein made $23 million in 2013, so, yeah.

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The NFL is technically a non-profit trade organization, which is the reason it remains tax-exempt. But the league is pulling in $10 billion a year now, and politicians have calculated that the league avoids paying millions in taxes every year as a result of its non-profit status.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6681526

[Enthusiast]

1. That sounds fair.

[tecelote]

2. That's based upon their status as a religion - right?

[davidpdx]

3. The league itself is tax-exempt, the teams are not

As for the $35 million salary, that is way too much.

[Fearless]

4. Not for profit for the league

People individually make tons is money because we're willing to buy the tickets and the cable network.

[joeybee12]

5. In his defense, he does have to deal with Jerry Jones

and Dan Snyder. Owners are the biggest collection of d-bags out there...that said, Goodell fits right in...and $35 million is too much, but if you consider the revenue the NFL generates, it's not that bad, IMHO. That said, he should be canned for other reasons.

[JonLP24]

6. Those kind of GMs are what Goddell is good for

Maximizing profits, shaking down cities for stadium deals, negotiating contracts -- expanding he is the right kind of GM when it comes to filling owners' pockets.

He over-kills on the drug suspensions, coverups things to prevent bad publicity, over-corrects when there is. Given that teams generally dislike the media, that probably scored some points there with the owners.

He is terrific for league profits. I'm not too happy my self with the rule changes, punishment overkill for victimless crimes -- inconsistent when there is. Forcing municipalities to bleed red ink just because he can.

In all honesty, Roger Goddell, Dan Snyder, and Jerry Jones probably all get along great. Probably the only thing they disagree is revenue sharing.

Washington NFL owner wants new DC stadium that “feels like RFK”

Daniel Snyder’s Washington football team has sent out a survey to season ticket holders about what they’d like to see in a new stadium to replace 18-year-old FedEx Field, and blah blah blah, this is an old gimmick to get people excited about the prospect of a new stadium, so really the less said about it the better, unless you really think Snyder is going to decide on how many seats to build based on an email poll. I do like this bit, though:

“We’ve already seen some preliminary drawings, and I’m going to be very retro with it,” Snyder said then. “It’s going to feel like RFK. It’s going to move like RFK.”

http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2015/02/06/8489/washington-nfl-owner-wants-new-dc-stadium-that-feels-like-rfk/

[joeybee12]

7. Of course Jerrah and Snyder love him because he makes them money...

That's why he still has his job, virtually any other CEO would have been fired for handling something like the Ray Rice matter.

[hughee99]

8. He actually makes that much running a non-profit that loses money almost every year.

In 2011, for example, the NFL paid it's top 5 executives $60 million dollars while taking in a total of $225 million dollars and spending a total of $332 million dollars, so I'm not sure what the taxes would be on an organization that loses over $100 million dollars.

Almost all of the money the NFL takes in goes to the teams, who do pay taxes on their revenue.