How do Sports photographers get paid?

Answer 1

The athlete's get payed like in any other job. they receive a check but when you say pro it could mean many different things i once knew a guy that played professional Baseball but not in America he went to china and he had a salary that they broke down into monthly payments say it was 400,000 they divided it by 12 and that was how they did it in other cases like if your in minor league baseball which is sometimes considered professional baseball they have a food salary which is how much they can spend on food a day here's an example: they could possible spend 10 dollars on breakfast 15 on lunch and 20 at dinner they would keep receipts and be reimbursed at the end of the week. Depends on how you look at it

Answer 2

usually by the photo by the photo but sometimes if they have a contract they would have a regular salary until the contract ran out