Baseball Player Salaries

Buster Posey | San Francisco Giants

Buster Posey's salary in 2013 is $8,000,000. He has appeared in 65 games for the San Francisco Giants so far this season. His agent is CAA Sports (Jeff ....

2013 Performance

Percent of team's payroll Percent of team's on-field performance
5.64 % 20.00 %
Buster Posey is a total stud

Key Stats

2013 Cost Per
Games 65 $123,076
At Bats 264 $30,303
Hits 73 $109,589
Runs 29 $275,862
Home Runs 8 $1,000,000

Yearly Salary

Season Salary
2011 $575,000
2012 $615,000
2013 $8,000,000
2014 $12,500,000
2015 $16,500,000
2016 $20,000,000
2017 $21,400,000
2018 $21,400,000
2019 $21,400,000
2020 $21,400,000
2021 $21,400,000

Compared to Others

Rank Player Similar Rank in Football Similar Salary in Football
124th Billy Butler
$8,000,000
127th Russell Okung
$5,960,000
72nd Arian Foster
$8,000,000
124th Buster Posey
$8,000,000
128th Jason Babin
$5,950,000
72nd Joe Flacco
$8,000,000
124th Edwin Encarnacion
$8,000,000
128th Kyle Williams
$5,950,000
72nd Brandon Flowers
$8,000,000

Federal Income Taxes (in current dollars using that years rates)

Under Administration Taxes
President Obama (D), 2012 $2,897,049
President Clinton (D), 1999 $3,263,782
President Reagan (R), 1981 $5,579,552
President Johnson (D), 1965 $5,588,144
President Eisenhower (R), 1956 $7,344,448

Unemployment

How long it will take the average person on unemployment to make Buster Posey's 2013 salary
27,303 weeks (525 years)

In Time...

In Buster Posey Will Make
one month $666,666
one week $153,846
one day $21,917
one hour $913
one minute $15.22
one second $0.25
since you loaded this page $0.25

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Inflation

Year Inflation Adjusted Value Actual Average MLB Salary Actual Average Household Income Median Home Price
2013 $8,000,000 $3,305,393 $49,777 $213,000
2000 $5,846,795 $1,895,630 $47,053 $174,700
1990 $4,380,753 $597,537 $28,040 $118,900
1980 $2,664,582 $143,756 $16,305 $66,700
1970 $1,309,709 $39,327 $5,640 $23,500
1950 $819,871 $12,340 $2,770 $14,500
1930 $597,533 $7,000 $1,140 $7,145
1920 $656,591 $5,000 $1,250 $3,100

Other Jobs

Buster Posey will make the average yearly salary of In Hours In Days In Games In At Bats
A High School Teacher 47 hours 1.98 days 0.35 games 1.43 at bats
A Police Officer 52 hours 2.17 days 0.39 games 1.57 at bats
A Doctor, Family Physician 153 hours 6.39 days 1.14 games 4.62 at bats
A U.S. Congressman 190 hours 7.94 days 1.41 games 5.74 at bats
President Obama 438 hours 18.25 days 3.25 games 13.20 at bats
A Citigroup CEO (Vikram Pandit, 2008) 41,881 hours 1,744 days 310 games 1,261 at bats
Bill Gates (Net Worth) 66,812,705 hours 2,783,227 days 495,628 games 2,013,002 at bats