The Average Salary of a Professional Figure Skater

The Average Salary of a Professional Figure Skater

The most famous professional figure skaters can earn hundreds of thousands or millions a year through advertising contracts. They give their names and faces to companies to use in their advertisements, and they earn a profit from their cheap oakley outlet sponsorships. Organizations from around the world ask them to participate in shows and cheap oakleys to make public appearances where they earn money, too. However, only the best and most talented are invited to participate in such opportunities where the salaries are high on a regular basis. Coaching is one of the more common ways pros make money.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics put the average salary of an athlete in the United States as of May 2010 at $87,340 per year, although the range is from about $17,120 in the 10th percentile to over $100,000 per year in the 90th percentile. (See Reference 7.) The salary of an athletic coach averaged $35,950, and ranged from about $16,380 to $63,720 cheap oakley outlet in the 90th percentile. (See Reference 8.) Although these figures are not specific to figure skating, they give a general idea of the wide range of salary a professional figure skater can expect to earn. Figure Skating Association rules, coaches can sometimes participate in certain competitions, they may choose not to compete when they coach. (See Reference 4.) Coaches teaching new students, for example, may charge, in general, oakley outlet $18 $20 per 20 minute lesson, according to the Georgia Figures Skating Club website as of June 2011. (See Reference 4.) The Wooster Figure Skating Club in Wooster, Oh., oakley sunglasses outlet for example, lists coaches' rates on its website as being between $8.50 and $14 per 15 minute lesson as of June 2011. (See Reference 6.)