THE UNPAID INTERN NOW ON TRACK TO MAKE $1 BILLION
He took over a league doing about $6B a year where the average team was worth $957M. Today revenue tops $23B and the average franchise is valued at $9.34B.
🚨 $751.7 million. That is what Roger Goodell has earned as NFL commissioner through 2025, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
He started in 1982 as an unpaid administrative intern at the league office in New York, a year after finishing an economics degree.
He was elected commissioner in 2006 and took office that September. His first full year paid around $6 million.
Then the curve went vertical. $29.5 million by 2012. $44.2 million in 2013. One later disclosure showed $63.9 million in each of two consecutive league fiscal years, the majority of it performance bonuses rather than salary.
The visibility faded in 2015, when the league office gave up its tax-exempt status and the public filings that had disclosed his pay.
📈 The business behind the paycheck: revenue was around $6 billion a year when he arrived, and the average franchise was worth $957 million in Forbes' 2007 valuations. Sportico's 2026 numbers put the average team at $9.34 billion, the Cowboys at $15.5 billion, nine teams at $10 billion or more, and league revenue above $23 billion.
On September 6, 2026 the NFL announced his fifth extension. Four seasons, running through 2030 and expiring March 31, 2031. Financial terms were not disclosed, but more than 95% of the compensation is performance-based. The compensation committee is chaired by Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
Celebrity Net Worth projects roughly $1.077 billion in cumulative pay by the end of 2030 — assuming $65 million a year from 2026 on. That part is an estimate, not a disclosed guarantee.
Is he worth it to the owners?
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