Since becoming NFL commissioner in 2007, Roger Goodell has made $210 million
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Roger Goodell is in the midst of his most challenging stretch since becoming NFL commissioner in 2007, yet his travails regarding the league’s domestic violence issues have been insulated by his bank account.
Goodell has made $210 million over the past eight years. To put it in perspective, only Broncos QB Peyton Manning is the only player in league history to make more than what Goodell has earned. He made $35.1 million in salary, bonus and pension compensation last year.
According to Equailar, a data firm, Roger Goodell’s salary puts him inside of the top-20 highest paid chief executive officers in the United States, putting him on the same level as Disney’s Robert Iger, Time Warner’s Jeffery Bewkes and Fabrizio Freda of Estee Lauder.
The firm also pointed out that Goodell’s salary is tilted by the fact the NFL’s annual revenue was $9.5 billion, which makes it pale in comparison to what Disney ($48 billion), Time Warner ($30 billion) and even Viacom ($13 billion).
Goodell’s earnings have made the highest-paid executive in North American sports history, as his 2012-13 salary was far more than outgoing MLB commissioner Bud Selig, NBA commissioner Adam Silver and reportedly more than five times better than NHL commissioner David Bettman.
Former defensive lineman Sean Gilbert wrote a 2011 book entitled The $29 Million Tip, contending that much of Roger Goodell’s earnings came as a result of how he was allegedly able to work a higher percentage of revenue to the owners during the 2011 labor negotiations.
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