A coach is probably the highest-paid public employee in your (US) state

Re:A coach is probably the highest-paid public employee in y... by bluedino on Friday May 10, 2013 @12:57PM (#5687311)

And the highest-paid person you graduated high school with is probably a player (assuming you went to a run-of-the-mill public school)

A guy I graduated with plays in the NBA, and makes somewhere around 6 million a year, which is about the league average. He'll probably be retired in a few more years but he'll still have had a good 10-12 years of making an extremely high salary.

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Re:A coach is probably the highest-paid public employee in y... by maxmcd on Friday May 10, 2013 @01:02PM (#5687348)

I would be surprised if there is a public school to cover every professional athlete. A quick google returns ~27,000 public high schools in the US. Can't imagine there are that many professional athletes.

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Re:A coach is probably the highest-paid public employee in y... by callmeed on Friday May 10, 2013 @01:04PM (#5687357)

That's okay, it probably won't last:

Sports Illustrated estimated in 2009 that 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or facing serious financial stress within two years of ending their playing careers and that 60 percent of NBA players are broke within five years of retiring from the game.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/story/2012-04-22/Pro-a...

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Re:A coach is probably the highest-paid public employee in y... by bluedino on Friday May 10, 2013 @01:07PM (#5687372)

Very common. A kid who got drafted the same year from the rival high school across town OWES the team that drafted him $10 million.

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