WWE Profits and Wrestler pay scales

**Dave Youell** · 05-07-2008, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Kane Knight

One thing I'll point out in terms of morale...You're still getting more than anywhere else in the profession. That might keep morale high, even if you get paid like chumps while the company is turning record profits.

I keep hearing that some TNA/Indy guys tend to get paid better than WWE mid carders.

Angle is on what? $500,000 a year with TNA? Now for TV's he's currently having to go to Florida 24 times a year to film TV, along with 12 PPV's a year. There wasn't house shows when he signed up, so I would assume that he's making extra for the house shows if he wants to work them.

So, for his contract, not taking promotional appearances into consideration, he's making almost $14,000 a night for working for TNA, and that's a pretty easy schedule for him and he can pretty much work wherever else he wants to within reason if he wants to make more money (like that TNA/Japan thing)

I know overall he's not making as much as the WWE top tier guys, but pro-rata, I think he's doing alright for himself. I can't do the exact figures with any WWE guys as there contracts are normally kept fairly quiet.

Test did a blog (not a great source) that anyone new to TV would be making around $70,000 a year, which is barely enough to survive on the road 4 days a week and I remember someone saying that mid carders make around $300,000 a year, but after travel, based on what Test said about travel, you can roughly say they take home �230,000 a year, based on 4 matches a week, and then say 10 PPV's a year (that's generous for a mid carder) and say 50 weeks works, as you need to take into account holiday season, and potential promotional work that would make them miss TV and house shows, you are looking at just over �1000 per night, I know these are not exact figures and comparing the likes of Angle to WWE Mid carders may not be fair, but it's the only rough figures I know off.

When you look at most sports, say the premier league, it's worth more today that it ever has, and the pay scale for the players has increased along with the net worth of the league that they represent, I feel that the wrestlers who are in essence the foundation of the company, should be paid in line with the profits that the WWE has generated, as if they don't have the talent, they won't make jack shit.