How much does a 70-year-old former professional baseball player earn per year? Yasushi Tao shockingly reveals that he earns 71,050 yen a month. “The majors are amazing. If you do it for 10 years, you’ll earn more than 20 million a year.” Former Rakuten manager and baseball commentator Yasushi Tao (70), who played for Chunichi, Seibu, and Hanshin during his playing days, appeared on Fuji TV’s “It!” on the 30th. He appeared in the “Super Investigation” segment and revealed the amount of pension he currently receives. During his 16-year professional career, Tao earned a peak of approximately 50 million yen a year, at a time when a salary of 10 million yen was considered top class. The current pension payment amount is “national pension 60,100 yen. Once every two months. And the employee pension is about 82,000 yen.” The total for the two months is 142,100 yen, or 71,050 yen per month. He paid into the national pension scheme while he was still working, and joined the Employees’ Pension Insurance after he retired. When Tao was still playing, there was a professional baseball pension system in place, which was funded by contributions from players and NPB funds, and paid out annually from the age of 55 to players who had been registered as players for more than 10 years. The highest amount was set to be 1.42 million yen per year in 2015, but the system was dissolved in 2011. A lump sum was paid at the time, but that was the end of it. Tao suggested that “it would not be strange to revive it again.” “The majors are amazing. If you do this for 10 years, you will make over 20 million yen a year. “It may seem like a small thing in retrospect, but if (the pension system) is reinstated, baseball will become a more attractive organization.”
>>1 >The current pension payment amount is “National pension 60,100 yen. Once every two months. And the employee pension is about 82,000 yen.” It’s unusually small.
The annual salary cap hasn’t increased much since Nakamura Norihiro’s 500 million yen 20 years ago, the pension system is going away, and Japan’s economy is really stagnating compared to the rest of the world.
In MLB, the players’ union collects taxes from its members and puts them aside, and if Japan wanted to do the same thing, they could have done it at any time.
I don’t know what to say about professional baseball players who make a decent living talking about pensions. Baseball pensions are funded by people who make a ton of money, so they’re the ones who have to make sacrifices to restore the pension system.
Since FA is a right that the entire players’ association won together, we should donate a certain percentage of the annual salary increase at the time of FA declaration to the pensions of all former players.
He must be earning about 10 times what the average salaryman does, so he must be saving and investing, and obviously he’s more than comfortable without relying on a pension.
The PGA offers a total of 3 billion yen to anyone who maintains a ranking within the top 70 for 10 years, and even if the player dies, his or her surviving family members will receive the money.
He was earning tens of millions a year while he was still active, so isn’t it just a matter of saving some of that for retirement? Even now, the average annual salary is apparently 47 million.
Most professional baseball players think that if their performance improves, their salary should increase, but from an economic standpoint, if their performance improves but they don’t contribute to increased sales, their salary won’t increase.
If it’s just pensions, people like Tao who have been active in the industry suffer the most. If they’re not doing very well, they’ll be fired in two years and become salaried workers. In the era they lived in, stable management was impossible. In fact, it’s amazing that they didn’t go bankrupt during the bubble.
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