www.capology.com

[Ayresome_park]

For those who are interested in figures regarding players wages and how much each club in the championship pays out on wages each year. I must stress that some of these as it states are estimates but it gives you a rough idea.

Also Jamie Vardy - £140,000 a week!!

Adam Reach (remember him) - £40,000 a week!!

Rav Van Den Berg - £2,000 a week, he'll be off soon

Below is the championship yearly wage bill, I've copied it from the site

Here’s how the Championship annual wages for the upcoming break down for the upcoming 2023-24 campaign. The numbers are via Capology and are only estimates.

1. Leicester City – £60,190,000
2. Southampton – £40,014,000
3. Leeds United – £39,513,000
4. Norwich City – £24,196,000
5. West Bromwich Albion – £23,060,000
6. Cardiff City – £19,444,000
7. Stoke City – £18,340,000
8. Watford – £14,952,000
9. Sheffield Wednesday – £14,584,000
10. Middlesbrough – £13,582,000
11. Birmingham City – £13,228,000
12. Bristol City – £12,894,000
13. Hull City – £12,333,200
14. Swansea City – £12,276,000
15. Queens Park Rangers – £12,020,000
16. Ipswich Town – £11,378,000
17. Preston North End – £10,942,200
18. Coventry City – £10,008,000
19. Millwall – £9,856,000
20. Huddersfield Town – £9,258,000
21. Sunderland – £9,150,000
22. Blackburn Rovers – £7,678,000
23. Rotherham United – £6,674,000
24. Plymouth Argyle – £6,060,000

 

[Johnny Vincents Motorbike]

All guess work - for clicks and advertising


only one organisation within football knows all of the contract arrangements & salaries in place for each and every player at every club and in every division.

and thats the players union, the PFA.

outside of that its a bar room guess.

 

[outoftown]

I'd hope that that's Rav's basic , and he's got appearance bonuses !!
I'd be offering him 5x that tomorrow, and renegotiating a sell on clause sharpish.

 

[Ayresome_park]

All guess work - for clicks and advertising


only one organisation within football knows all of the contract arrangements & salaries in place for each and every player at every club and in every division.

and thats the players union, the PFA.

outside of that its a bar room guess.

Yeah I agree although it seems a legit site, it does state that some are estimates.

 

[kuepper]

Based on that the parachute payments are helping the teams relegated from PL retain and attract the better players with higher salaries hence often the same ones that go straight back up

 

[Boro_Interlinked]

I don't get it. We know our clubs entire wages for non playing and playing every year as it is published in our accounts. last year was 29.3m I think. Only a small proportion is non playing. Not sure how you make 29.3 look like 13m

 

[pierrequiroule]

Most are estimates, but based on collected data that is explained somewhere on the site, so not blind estimates. The salaries of players with green ticks next to their name have been verified.

 

[Ayresome_park]

Kevin de bruyne is apparently the PL's most expensive player 20.8 million a year!!

 

[jeff_potato]

It has been said many times in the past that games like Championship Manager were pretty accurate with wages, so I'm not sure it's all guesswork.

From the figures I've seen online for Boro, O'Brien's is one where I presume the circa £15k mentioned is what we pay him as a proportion of what is surely a PL level contract. The one player I really raised eyebrows at was Hoppe on a reported £10k. If true, then he's got a great agent and no wonder he's never made noises about the nomadic life we've set him up with.

 

[Boro_Interlinked]

1. how many players has the club got on financial contracts?

2. how many other staff are there in the organisation?.

i would suggest that staff more than out number the footballers by a long margin as they do at every club - i read that Newcastle have a staff of over 600 and Everton almost 700.....man utd have over 1,000 staff

someone on 30k a year is pulling in 575 pounds a week. Not sure why you think that touches the sides of paying one an average player 23k a week. That's a factor of 40 . Our staff numbers have also been published before and its not near Prem level. I seem to remember a low of 170 and maybe a max of 230 at various stages last 6 years

 

[Boro_Interlinked]

Last years accounts say wages (all staff) (not incl social sec) was 26m Playing staff was 77, non playing was 151

 

[B_G]

It has been said many times in the past that games like Championship Manager were pretty accurate with wages, so I'm not sure it's all guesswork.

From the figures I've seen online for Boro, O'Brien's is one where I presume the circa £15k mentioned is what we pay him as a proportion of what is surely a PL level contract. The one player I really raised eyebrows at was Hoppe on a reported £10k. If true, then he's got a great agent and no wonder he's never made noises about the nomadic life we've set him up with.

We paid around £3mil for Hoppe and he had been playing in Bundeliga. I would be surprised if he was on less than £10k. If anything I would have expected he was on more. Probably took a decent chunk of a signing on fee.

 

[newusername]

someone on 30k a year is pulling in 575 pounds a week. Not sure why you think that touches the sides of paying one an average player 23k a week. That's a factor of 40 . Our staff numbers have also been published before and its not near Prem level. I seem to remember a low of 170 and maybe a max of 230 at various stages last 6 years

£575 a week is good money for non-playing staff. A 1st team analyst at Swansea is on £22k (plus 20% off in the club shop):

 

[sherlock]

£575 a week is good money for non-playing staff. A 1st team analyst at Swansea is on £22k (plus 20% off in the club shop):
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That's pathetic money for that role!

 

[newusername]

That's pathetic money for that role!

Full job description...

https://cdn.swanseacity.com/sites/default/files/2023-09/Men%27s%20Team%20Performance%20Analyst%202023.pdf

 

[sherlock]

Full job description...

https://cdn.swanseacity.com/sites/default/files/2023-09/Men%27s%20Team%20Performance%20Analyst%202023.pdf

Looks even worse seeing that.

Football clubs really do treat their non-playing staff badly.

 

[Cambsred]

Looks even worse seeing that.

Football clubs really do treat their non-playing staff badly.

It never surprises me how much football clubs take advantage of the fact that they are football clubs and people want the kudos and link to them. They they spend small fortunes on playing personnel.

 

[Bruce]

You can do a bit of analysis. Last season we had 77 playing staff and 151 non-playing staff. The 77 playing staff will include players at all age bands. The total wage bill (not counting social security such as NI and pensions) was £26m.

We don't split out player vs non-player wages but if you take a stab at 85% of our wage bill being playing staff then what you get is

staff	number	£££
playing	77​	£ 23,497,200
non-playing	151​	£ 2,610,800
Total		£ 26,108,000

That gives an average annual salary of around £17K for non-playing staff which is probably pretty close.

Last year we had 27 first team squad members throughout the year though some left or joined half-way through. Call it 27 1st team vs 50 juniors and again, you can probably assume that 90% of the players' wage bill goes on the 27 first teamers.
Gives you this

staff	number	£££	average annual	%age	weekly
1st team squad last season	27​	£ 21,147,480	£ 783,240	90%​	£ 15,062.31
non-first team squad	50​	£ 2,349,720	£ 46,994	10%​	£ 903.74

Again, seems plausible.

The wage bill will include bonuses and I have no idea beyond Football Manager about what real bonuses are like. We presumably paid out some play-off bonuses and individual bonuses though.

Anyway, last season, it's reasonable to assume that the salary+bonuses for 1st team squad members was £20-£22m.

 

[newusername]

You can do a bit of analysis. Last season we had 77 playing staff and 151 non-playing staff. The 77 playing staff will include players at all age bands. The total wage bill (not counting social security such as NI and pensions) was £26m.

We don't split out player vs non-player wages but if you take a stab at 85% of our wage bill being playing staff then what you get is

staff	number	£££
playing	77​	£ 23,497,200
non-playing	151​	£ 2,610,800
Total		£ 26,108,000

That gives an average annual salary of around £17K for non-playing staff which is probably pretty close.

Are Carrick, Woodgate & the rest of the 1st team coaches playing or non-playing?
I'd assume non-playing which makes the £2.6m seem light.

 

[atypical_boro]

It never surprises me how much football clubs take advantage of the fact that they are football clubs and people want the kudos and link to them. They they spend small fortunes on playing personnel.

Its just market forces though. If no one decent wanted the job for £22k a year, they wouldn't fill the role. If they reduced the salaries of their players, what would happen?

I'm not saying its 'right' but its hardly surprising. Football clubs are large organisations like any other, they're not charities. They're not here 'for the community', its not a 'working class sport' (fans need to stop lapping up this nonsense in my view), they are no different to any other private organisation that pays its star performers stupid money and its dispensable lackeys next to nowt.