Soccer-FIFA leads the field on pay (Reuters)
By Tom Bergin LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) – Soccer’s international administrators, like players on the field, are collecting salaries that outstrip most of their peers in other sports, and no less so than at FIFA, annual accounts from governing bodies show. Average pay and pension contributions for staff at Zurich-based FIFA, the global soccer federation which is caught up in a corruption scandal, was $242,000 per employee last year.