CHARLOTTE, N.C. — This week’s Charlotte Business Journal takes a look at the Charlotte area’s highest-paid athletes. Included on the lists are professional athletes from the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte Hornets. Players on the Panthers team who were on the roster as of Jan. 22 were ranked by their base salary for 2020. Players on the 2019-20 Hornets roster were ranked by base salary for that season. Incentives, bonuses and endorsements were not included in the salary figures for Panthers and Hornets players on the Top 25 Lists.
Cam Newton ranks No. 1 for the Panthers, and Nicolas Batum holds that spot for the Hornets, in terms of base salary.
CBJ also reranked the lists by total compensation.
Total compensation for Panthers players includes base salary, signing bonus, roster bonus, option bonus, workout bonus, restructuring bonus and miscellaneous pay. For Hornets players, total compensation includes base salary only.
Check out this slideshow to see who came out on top by that measure.
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