{"id":2978,"date":"2013-02-15T19:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2013-02-15T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T00:01:46","slug":"roger-goodells-salary-reaches-30-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/02\/15\/roger-goodells-salary-reaches-30-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Goodell&#8217;s salary reaches $30 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296\" alt=\"rogergoodell\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/rogergoodell.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/rogergoodell.jpg 400w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/rogergoodell-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It pays to be on top, or perhaps it just pays to be the commissioner of the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Goodell earned over $29.49 million in 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessdaily.com\/Daily\/Closing-Bell\/2013\/02\/15\/goodell.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to a copy of the league&#8217;s tax return.<\/p>\n<p>During the lockout Goodell and general counsel Jeff Pash reduced their salaries to $1 until an agreement was made. Pash earned $8.8 million in compensation during the same time period.<\/p>\n<p>Goodell earned $11.6 million in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NFL is the most successful and best-managed sports league in the world,&#8221; Falcons owner Arthur Blank said in a statement obtained by The Sports Business Daily. &#8220;This is no small part due to Roger&#8217;s leadership and the value he brings to the table in every facet of the sport and business of the league. His compensation reflects that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NBA Commissioner David Stern and MLB Commissioner Bud Selig are thought to earn in the mid $20 million range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It pays to be on top, or perhaps it just pays to be the commissioner of the NFL. Roger Goodell earned over $29.49 million in 2011 according to a copy of the league&#8217;s tax return. During the lockout Goodell and general counsel Jeff Pash reduced their salaries to $1 until an agreement was made. Pash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[8],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-2978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-roger-goodell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}