Essay Why College Athletes Should Be Paid

Why college athletes should be paid. College athletes should be getting paid because they are putting in so much time on their sport they spend an average of 43.3 hours per week dedicated to their sport. College athletes spend around 43.3 hours on just their sport, if they are spending that much time on sports how are they going to get money. A college student has to go to class and has to have some income of money if college athletes don't have time for a job it's going to be hard to get money for food and college. College athletes need to get paid so they can pay for college. Not all of the college athletes get their college paid for they need to pay for it themselves and if they don't ever have time to work they will not be able to pay for college. College athlete not getting paid can make them go in debt which no one wants. Not all college athletes can just ask there parents to pay for there whole college. Most

There is 168 hours in a seven day week. If they spend 43 hours a week on their sport that means they only have 125 hours of the week left. Add in school work and classes which is an average of 6 hours a day, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Then, most students have a class on Tuesday and Thursday which is another hour and a half. If you add all that up, you have 27 hours of just class a week. Now you add studying on top of that and you have over 33 hours a week in just school. That leaves 92 hours left to work in a week. If you go home for the weekend that’s another 48 hours. Now there is only 44 hours left to work. Say you get an average of 8 hours of sleep a night. Then you have only 4 hours a week to work. Now since you're in college you will have a not so good paying job so you’ll most likely have a minimum wage job. The pay for a minimum wage job is $7.25 in the US. That means that you'll make about 29 dollars a week. If you're in college making 29$ a week it's going to be hard living at