Average Wages for footballers

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I don''t know if it''s been mentioned on here before, but it might trigger some debate so here goes :The Independents'' Survey of footballer wages - 2006.[quote]The average basic annual Championship salary is now £195,750, up from £128,000 six years ago, or an increase of 53 per cent.[/quote]I reckon that the championship average makes us an above average payer, on the basis of the figures suggested on here for some of our first team.  Unprovable I suppose. What I get from this is the unsustainability of the whole thing.  On the basis of a 53 per cent increase in wages over the last 6 seasons, with no doubt more to follow this season, and diminishing TV revenue, can any football club be run at a profit ? [:0] [;)]

What The Independent''s survey revealed

AVERAGE BASIC WAGE

Premiership £676,000

Championship £195,750

League One £67,850

League Two £49,600

AVERAGE BASIC WAGE BY AGE GROUP

Premiership

Age 17-18 £24,500

Age 19-20 £95,000

Age 21-22 £390,000

Age 23-24 £582,500

Age 25-26 £653,000

Age 27-28 £899,500

Age 29-30 £806,000

Age 31-32 £586,000

Age 33+ £660,500

Average* £676,000

Championship

Age 17-18 £22,500

Age 19-20 £43,700

Age 21-22 £79,000

Age 23-24 £79,200

Age 25-26 £136,000

Age 27-28 £261,850

Age 29-30 £247,000

Age 31-32 £247,000

Age 33+ £195,700

Average* £195,750

League One

Age 17-18 **

Age 19-20 £18,950

Age 21-22 £52,000

Age 23-24 £61,650

Age 25-26 £67,600

Age 27-28 £71,750

Age 29-30 £69,300

Age 31-32 £87,000

Age 33+ £72,000

Average* £67,850

League Two

Age 17-18 **

Age 19-20 £16,000

Age 21-22 £32,350

Age 23-24 £43,650

Age 25-26 £46,300

Age 27-28 £47,300

Age 29-30 £50,500

Age 31-32 £52,000

Age 33+ £45,800

Average* £49,600

*all players aged above 20. **insufficient sample pool for meaningful average.

AVERAGE BASIC WAGE BY PLAYING POSITION

	Prem	Championship	League 1	League 2
Goalkeeper	£533,000	£179,500	£53,500	£45,900
Defender	£653,000	£167,000	£61,000	£44,400
Midfielder	£754,000	£185,950	£79,000	£46,800
Forward	£806,000	£292,900	£75,000	£67,900
Overall	£676,000	£195,750	£67,850	£49,600

[Graeme Miles 0]

unbelievable, and thats average! I''d be interested to see what quality of player is pulling down an average salary? For instance, Safri was an average player, but I bet he was getting paid above that average figure!

I wish I could play for Real Madrid for a week, on their average salary - it would set me up for years to come!

[Indy_Bones 411]

What''s even scarier about this all is the fact that the average figures are being totally skewed by the selection of massively high earners at the bigger clubs.

So Ballack with his suggested £140,000 per week at Chelsea would equate to £7,280,000 per year before tax!

This is roughly 10.8 times greater than the average wage, meaning that to get the average, there would need to be approx 117 players on roughly £1,200 per week just to equal Ballack''s wages.

In theory, this also means that with the likes of Lampard, Terry, Shevchenko, Drogba etc, Chelsea''s wage bill alone would consititute enough to pay for probably about 2000 players on about £2k per week!

Shocking really...

[Syteanric 1]

This proves conclusively we need a salary cap.. and if its run and managed in the same way it is in the NFL (where the leagues pay the wages... not the clubs) then theres no way it will be exploited like it is in Rugby League!

jas :)

[Le Juge 0]

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This proves conclusively we need a salary cap.. and if its run and managed in the same way it is in the NFL (where the leagues pay the wages... not the clubs) then theres no way it will be exploited like it is in Rugby League!

jas :)

[/quote]Has to be worldwide though otherwise the good players will all bugger off to Spain, Italy etc. Personally not sure that''d be such a bad thing - we have TV''s and could watch them on the TV still while at least then we might play some young English talent in our country but that''s another debate.

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If the only reason for not having a salary cap is that English teams wouldn''t do so well in the Champions League, I could live with that if it made the English game fairer.  However, with a salary cap, wouldn''t the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals just get bigger and bigger squads of the  leftovers ?

[The Judge 0]

If that is the average it just shows how overpaid some of the muppets Worthington bought in since relegation were.

I understand our players wage bill last season was around £9m - if you divide that by the average salary we would have had 45 professional players on the books. We all know that wasn''t the case and our squad was widely touted to be too small - which it was.

It was rumoured that Thorne was on £9k a week - thats £468k a year, Hughes £8k a week - thats £416k a year. Robinson, Fleming, McVeigh were also on good wages. God knows what Earnie was on, but I guess it was well over £10k a week - and Hucks will be in that bracket also.

I have been, and still am highly critical of our board and how they have managed the clubs finances over the past 4/5 years, but if you take the above in to account you can''t say they haven''t put the money up over the past couple of seasons. Its just that we have had, and signed, very poor players that haven''t delivered for the money they have been getting paid - a responsibility that must lie with the scouting system, and the first team management and coaches. It re-inforces the fact that this years bargain basement buys have been to re-address our wage bill and bring them back to Championship average. Unfortunately it will also result in us being an average championship club........which brings us back to the debate on the vital need new investment if we are to challenge in this league again.

 

[My spoon is too big! 20]

Thanks for posting that. It was the most interesting post I''ve seen on here for a good couple of weeks!

Also worth bearing in mind what the article states, and that''s BASIC salary. Additional payments for actually playing, and performance-based incentives often see the Premiership salaries double!