Based on the Earnings list from the 2011-2012 PBA Earnings List, where would you rank in earnings from your currrent job?


Name             Events    Earnings
Sean Rash    13    $140,250.00
Jason Belmonte    13    $137,375.00
Mike Fagan    13    $116,950.00
Pete Weber    14    $97,820.00
Osku Palermaa    11    $79,110.00
Norm Duke    13    $68,500.00
Ryan Ciminelli    14    $64,545.00
Chris Barnes    14    $60,280.00
Ryan Shafer    14    $54,935.00
Andres Gomez    14    $40,310.00
Bill O'Neill    13    $39,510.00
Wes Malott    13    $39,380.00
Stuart Williams    12    $36,305.00
Dan MacLelland    14    $34,590.00
Dom Barrett    12    $34,255.00
Rhino Page    14    $33,365.00
Mike DeVaney    10    $32,565.00
Mika Koivuniemi    14    $31,665.00
Eugene McCune    14    $27,010.00
Nathan Bohr    14    $26,645.00
Ronnie Russell    14    $26,140.00
Chris Loschetter    14    $25,190.00
Martin Larsen    13    $24,040.00
Josh Blanchard    13    $23,330.00
Bryon Smith    9    $23,200.00
Dave Wodka    13    $21,585.00
Parker Bohn III    13    $21,495.00
Tom Smallwood    14    $20,465.00
Brian Kretzer    14    $20,445.00
Ildemaro Ruiz    12    $20,300.00
Chris Warren    12    $19,385.00
Mike Scroggins    13    $19,265.00
Tommy Jones    12    $17,390.00
Scott Newell    13    $17,285.00
Mitch Beasley    12    $17,262.50
Jack Jurek    14    $17,155.00
Dino Castillo    14    $17,070.00
Jason Couch    14    $16,945.00
Michael Haugen Jr    14    $15,400.00
Patrick Allen    13    $15,065.00
Amleto Monacelli    12    $14,825.00
Dick Allen    13    $13,895.00
Brian Valenta    14    $13,470.00
Tom Hess    13    $13,205.00
Walter Ray Williams Jr    14    $12,650.00
Brad Angelo    14    $12,390.00
Tyler Jensen    8    $11,140.00
Kelly Kulick    13    $10,855.00
Danny Wiseman    12    $9,840.00
Lonnie Waliczek    11    $9,510.00

Why is it sad?  Do they not know what the prize fund and the odds of them winning a percentage of it are before they join the tour?  Do they not choose that particular vocation anyway?  Do you lament the restaurant cook who loves to cook but tops out a 35K year?  How about the person who chooses physical therapist to help people knowing that the top jobs pay about $50K on average?  Where is the public outcry?

Really, what is it about pro bowlers that have you wringing your hands and falling to your knees wailing about their financial incomes?  It's their choice! Bowling centers have limited space so the take from the gate is limited.  None of these guys know how to market themselves so they don't build up a following willing to pay to see them.  Or as the movie A League of Ordinary Gentlemen showed, some are unwilling to market themselves or help the PBA market itself, right Walter Ray?  He showed exactly what is wrong with the Tour by that attitude.  Hell, they all did when they just showed up at the first meeting with the new owners and didn't have one idea or suggestions on how to run the Tour themselves, they just accepted what was told to them.  They need to take over the Tour themselves, figure out how to sell out arenas (big gate money), and generate interest.  They start selling out arenas, the networks will come.  The networks come, the sponsors will come.  The sponsors come, the money will come and then all you guys can sleep well at night knowing they are consistently making more than teachers do in a year.  Yay.     

Before retirement  above Rash, retired now just below Shaffer without Social Security
till I'm old enough to collect that also.

The poverty line would have a strong showing.

I'd be 7th on that list, but I work more than 14 weeks a year.

Exactly.. You can't really compare the two.

I'd be 13th.