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The 50 Highest-Paid Athletes

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This is Forbes annual list of the highest-paid professional athletes. Forbes uses salaries, bonuses, prize money, appearance fees, licensing deals and endorsement contracts to determine which athletes earned the most during the previous year. (Taxes and fees paid to representatives like agents are not factored in.) Taken together, the listed 2011 athletes earned $1.4 billion, an average of $28 million a piece. This is down 11% from the previous year's total (though some of this the magazine credits to the inactivity of Floyd Mayweather in 2011, who single-handedly earned $65 million the year before.) This list includes elite athletes from all sports -- from Cristiano Ronaldo in soccer to boxing sensation, Manny Pacquiao.

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  1. 1
    1975
    Earnings: $75 million
  2. 2
    1978
    Earnings: $53 million
  3. 3
    1984
    Earnings: $48 million
  4. 4
    1981
    Earnings: $47 million
  5. 5
    1970
    Earnings: $46.5 million
  6. 6
    1975
    Earnings: $40 million
  7. 7
    1985
    Earnings: $38 million
  8. 8
    1975
    Earnings: $35 million
  9. 9

    Michael Schumacher

    1969
    Earnings: $34 million
  10. 10
    1987
    Earnings: $32.3 million
  11. 11

    Fernando Alonso

    1981
    Earnings: $32 million
  12. 12
    1986
    Earnings: $31.5 million
  13. 13

    Valentino Rossi

    1979
    Earnings: $31 million
  14. 14
    1977
    Earnings: $31 million
  15. 15

    Lewis Hamilton

    1985
    Earnings: $30 million
  16. 16
    1974
    Earnings: $29 million
  17. 17

    Dale Earnhardt Jr

    1974
    Earnings: $28.5 million
  18. 18
    1980
    Earnings: $27.7 million
  19. 19
    1985
    Earnings: $27.6 million
  20. 20
    1982
    Earnings: $26.2 million
  21. 21
    1976
    Earnings: $26.1 million
  22. 22
    1973
    Earnings: $26 million
  23. 23
    1984
    Earnings: $25.1 million
  24. 24
    1982
    Earnings: $25 million
  25. 25
    1978
    Earnings: $25 million

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  1. Sadye Segar
    The 50 Highest-Paid Athletes at 10/29/2012 11:30 PM
    Richest Athletes Yeah yeah yeah
  2. Francene Menning
    The 50 Highest-Paid Athletes at 9/07/2012 11:30 PM
    highest paid athletes Sure!
  3. jdemo23
    The 50 Highest-Paid Athletes at 6/06/2011 6:15 PM
    Dang Tiger's still making that much money? It'd be nice if he could start winning again, right?

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