New survey says Katie Taylor earns €2400 per Instagram post but highlights gender gap

KATIE Taylor earns an estimated €2,400 per post on the social network platform Instagram according to a new survey. he undefeated world boxing champion has 390,000 followers on the platform, putting her second in the women’s game behind double Olympic gold medallist and unbeaten professional world champion Claressa Shields. The American has 424,000 followers and earns £2,600 per post. The other high-profile female fighters lag behind the pair. Amanda Serrano (79,900), Cecilia Braekhus (71,400) and Jessica McCaskill (20,200) are in third, fourth and fifth place respectively in the table compiled by onlinegambling.com The most revealing aspect of the table is how far the female fighters trail their male counterparts in their number of followers they have on the platform which impacts on the earning capacity from this source. Even though he hasn’t fought professionally since 2017, Floyd Mayweather Jr sits at the top of the Instagram earnings chart with prospective pay outs of €112,973 per post. He has 25.5m followers on the social network. In second place is another retired boxer Mike Tyson who has 14.7m followers and earns an estimated €59,100 per post. British heavyweight rivals Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are third and eighth respectively with 12.2m and…
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