I can tell you from experience that the base salary for a ticket or corporate sales person was around $18K in the late 2000s, and probably hasn't risen over $25K since then. A sales person who is really crushing it in the SPHL is, tops, making $40K.
Do they live month-to-month? More like week-to-week. Even in parts of the country where the cost of living is lower, like say, Alabama, a $25K/year salary, according to SmartAsset.com's Paycheck Calculator, gives them a bi-weekly take-home of $847, and that's with minimal withholding.
Balch doesn't make more than $60K, tops, if I had to guess. Jeffries nickel-and-dimes the operation because it's his only business, so his family depends on him siphoning out as much profit as possible each year.
If they try and play 56 games in a span of 120 days, the workman's compensation insurance premiums will be untenable for a lot of teams. More games in less time means more injuries, and insurance companies know that.
The FPHL will never fold as long as Soskin has all that gun shop money rolling in and he needs to lower his AGI come April 15.