djarvik wrote:Viera, I still don't think 133k is enough to live comfortably for a tennis player. US tennis player. Depends on where he lives, there are Taxes to deal with. Tickets to go to Europe are expensive. Hotels here in US are not cheap either. Food, house - mortgage, real-estate taxes, gas, car, car insurance, life insurance, house insurance....and the list goes on.
If you are a student and getting this much with no mortgage - then yeah, even though you will pay 40% in taxes, you will still have a nice amount left to live NICELY on and your expenses are minimal at that age. But for me, a family of 3 living in New York, it would be rather tight. It would not be all bad of course, but tight. I have a mortgage about 3.5k a month for my condo + 400/m maintenance. That's 49k a year just for that.
It is totally depends on where you live and what you perceive as comfort.
I guess so. I guess it is entirely up to the players. I mean, some will be comfortable like that, and they'll enjoy travelling like Dustin Brown in a campervan etc. Others won't. It also depends where you live, and if you have a permanent dwelling.
How much do you earn a year?