They'd be getting match payments, roughly $5000 a game I think as well as their base salary. Rookie on $75 / $80 K base plus maybe another $30 to $50 K match payments is on reasonable coin for hovering around the fringes.Minimum wage for a rookie in 2018 was $75,000. It was $71,500 in 2017 and $57,940 in 2016.