WWE signs their talent as independent contractors, which means that there’s certain things the talent has to do on their own. It’s never been a secret that the wrestlers pay for their own rental cars, hotel rooms, and many other travel expenses which they can write off as business expenses on their taxes.
However, there is a big difference how AEW treats their contracted talent compared to the WWE, and Chris Jericho talked about it at length on Talk Is Jericho.
“Right off the bat, not to get into the specifics, but things that I have here in AEW I never had in WWE for 20 years. Even something as simple as paying your expenses on the road, like any team does. If the Jaguars go to play a game in St. Louis, the hotel is paid for and ‘Here’s the trip,’ and ‘Here’s the team bus to pick you up and drive you around.’ That’s just the way it is. It’s not even a second thought, right? That’s how it is here in AEW as well, which it’s never like that in WWE.”
“They still go with, ‘Here’s your plane ticket. You’re flying to Detroit. You’re working Detroit, Chicago, Cape Girardeau and St. Louis.’ So you rent your car in Detroit, you drop it off in St. Louis. You got to find your hotel rooms, you got to get a car that’s got a good rate for the drop-off. All this stuff. And those are your expenses and your responsibility to do that. And that’s another thing that I think people are just like, ‘Alright, are you kidding me? You really have to do that?’ So that’s the biggest difference.”
Moves like this have often been criticized by wrestlers and people on the outside looking in from the sport, but it seems like this is one of the many reasons Chris Jericho has shifted his loyalty to All Elite Wrestling.
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