Top Premiership Wages Earners (compare to MLB/NBA)

[pc4th]

English Premiership Highest Wages Earners

http://forum.suforum.org/showthread.php?t=21711
From Four Four Two Mag

MICHAEL Owen's contract at Newcastle United has made him the highestpaid player in the Premiership with a basic wage of £ 102,000 per week.

Owen agreed the record deal when he signed from Real Madrid for £ 17million in August, since when he has scored four times in an injuryravaged spell.

The England vice- captain was yesterday named as one of 44 players in a new list of Britain's 100 richest people in football. His gross earnings of £5.3m-per-year outstrip the previous highest salary, earned by Frank Lampard, and rank him third in total wealth with a fortune assessed at £30m.

Lampard, who signed a five year deal worth £4.68m-a-season -- £90,000 per week -- with Chelsea 16 months ago, is ranked joint 13th with teammate John Terry.

Rio Ferdinand's new deal at Manchester United is understood to pay a basic salary of around £85,000 per week but includes annual loyalty bonuses which take it up to £110,000.

New entries to the list also include Wayne Rooney, who earns around £50,000 per week at Old Trafford, and Didier Drogba, who benefited from a substantial signing on fee from his £24m transfer to Chelsea from Marseille.


Jose Mourinho's £5m-a-year contract at Chelsea, signed last May, has catapulted him into the top 100 at No 70.

England captain David Beckham remains the wealthiestplayer, having reaped the benefits of several lucrative endorsement deals to supplement his weekly wage of £116,000 at Real Madrid.

Recap
Owen: £ 102,000 a week (5.3 million)
Lampard: £4.68m
Rio: £85,000 per week but includes annual loyalty bonuses which take it up to £110,000
Beckham: 116,000 a week = $10,375,040 a year
Other from the articles:

Rooney: £50,000 a week
Mourinho: 5 million pounds

100,000 pounds a week = $8,944,000 a year
So Owen is making around $9 million a year as the highest EPL's wages earner. I was surprised to see that Rooney is only making $4.5 million a year.

Major League Baseball top wages earners

1 Rodriguez, Alex $ 26,000,000
2 Bonds, Barry $ 22,000,000
3 Ramirez, Manny $ 22,000,000
4 Jeter, Derek $ 19,600,000
5 Mussina, Mike $ 19,000,000
6 Bagwell, Jeff $ 18,000,000
7 Clemens, Roger $ 18,000,000 Houston Astros
8 Sosa, Sammy $ 17,000,000 Baltimore Orioles
9 Piazza, Mike $ 16,071,429 New York Mets
10 Jones, Chipper $ 16,061,802 Atlanta Braves
11 Johnson, Randy $ 16,000,000 New York Yankees
12 Brown, Kevin $ 15,714,286 New York Yankees
13 Hampton, Mike $ 15,125,000 Atlanta Braves
14 Park, Chan Ho $ 15,000,000 Texas Rangers
15 Schilling, Curt $ 14,500,000 Boston Red Sox
16 Giambi, Jason $ 13,428,571 New York Yankees
17 Dreifort, Darren $ 13,400,000 Los Angeles Dodgers
18 Thome, Jim $ 13,166,667 Philadelphia Phillies
19 Abreu, Bobby $ 13,100,000 Philadelphia Phillies
20 Jones, Andruw $ 13,000,000 Atlanta Braves
21 Sheffield, Gary $ 13,000,000 New York Yankees
22 Walker, Larry $ 12,666,667 St. Louis Cardinals
23 Helton, Todd $ 12,600,000 Colorado Rockies
24 Griffey Jr, Ken $ 12,500,000 Cincinnati Reds
25 Guerrero, Vladimir $ 12,500,000 Los Angeles Angels

National Basketball Association top wages earners
1. Shaquille O'Neal (Mia) ..... $27,696,430
2. Allan Houston (NY) ......... $17,531,250
2. Chris Webber (Sac) ......... $17,531,250
4. Kevin Garnett (Min) ........ $16,000,000
5. Dikembe Mutombo (NJ) ....... $14,989,285 [released]
6. Jason Kidd (NJ) ............ $14,796,000
6. Jermaine O'Neal (Ind) ...... $14,796,000
8. Shareef Abdur-Rahim (Por) .. $14,625,000
8. Ray Allen (Sea) ............ $14,625,000
8. Anfernee Hardaway (NY) ..... $14,625,000
8. Zydrunas Ilgauskas (Cle) ... $14,625,000
8. Allen Iverson (Phi) ........ $14,625,000
8. Stephon Marbury (NY) ....... $14,625,000
8. Latrell Sprewell (Min) ..... $14,625,000
8. Antoine Walker (Atl) ....... $14,625,000
16. Michael Finley (Dal) ....... $14,609,375
17. Grant Hill (Orl) ........... $14,487,000
17. Tracy McGrady (Hou) ........ $14,487,000
17. Jalen Rose (Tor) ........... $14,487,000
17. Keith Van Horn (Mil) ....... $14,487,000
21. Tim Duncan (SA) ............ $14,260,641
22. Kobe Bryant (LAL) .......... $14,175,000
23. Eddie Jones (Mia) .......... $13,455,000
24. Brian Grant (LAL) .......... $13,233,434
25. Antonio Davis (Chi) ........ $12,925,000
26. Tim Thomas (NY) ............ $12,900,000
27. Vince Carter (NJ) .......... $12,584,688
27. Antawn Jamison (Was) ....... $12,584,688
27. Dirk Nowitzki (Dal) ........ $12,584,688
27. Paul Pierce (Bos) .......... $12,584,688
31. Damon Stoudamire (Por) ..... $12,500,000
32. Baron Davis (NO) ........... $12,330,000
32. Steve Francis (Orl) ........ $12,330,000
32. Shawn Marion (Pho) ......... $12,330,000
35. Glenn Robinson (Phi) ....... $12,071,250
36. Elton Brand (LAC) .......... $12,056,000
37. Nick Van Exel (Por) ........ $11,933,252
38. Carlos Boozer (Uta) ........ $10,967,500
39. Theo Ratliff (Por) ......... $10,937,500
40. Lamar Odom (LAL) ........... $10,548,596
41. Mike Bibby (Sac) ........... $10,500,000

English Premiership top wages earners
1. Rio (including royalty bonuses).......$9,838,400
2. Owen........................................$9,122,880
3. Lampard: £4.68m.........................$8,050,000

x. Rooney......................................$4,500,000

There is a huge thread in the Business and Media Forum debating why soccer top stars are not paying as much as other sports top stars if you are interested.

[Toon³]

Owen is not on £102,000 a week. He is on £75,000 a week.

Newcastle highest paid player for some unknown reason is Dyer who is on £80,000 a week

[canzano55]

There is a huge thread in the Business and Media Forum debating why soccer top stars are not paying as much as other sports top stars if you are interested.Western Sports is franchised for the most part. Its designed to incompass all teams to support itself and the league.

Soccer is free enterprise sports if you think about; which would probably have something to do with astronomical transfer fees that are unmatched in world sports.

[pc4th]

Soccer is free enterprise sports if you think about; which would probably have something to do with astronomical transfer fees that are unmatched in world sports.

I agree with you but don't tell that to those that don't think transfer fees has the greatest impact on salary in that thread.

[RichardL]

I agree with you but don't tell that to those that don't think transfer fees has the greatest impact on salary in that thread.Not in the way you think it does. In some of the dozen or so threads you've started about this subject, it's been pointed out that for whatever reason(s), football teams here pay a flatter salary scale than in US sports, so that even where a premiership team has exactly the same salary budget as a team in US sports, you don't get the lions share of the money being shovelled in the direction of a handful of star players with the other picking up (relatively) peanuts, like you do over there.


If your belief that transfer fees (or the lowered salary budget as a result to be exact) were what causes the top stars to not earn US style star salaries, this would not be the case.

[Prenn]

I agree with you but don't tell that to those that don't think transfer fees has the greatest impact on salary in that thread.

Well it doesn't, you seem unable to grasp that.

[spursman]

i think there should be a maximum wage for footie players. £30,000 a week. which is still a fu*king lot! they get paid far to much!

[Walter3000]

i think there should be a maximum wage for footie players. £30,000 a week. which is still a fu*king lot! they get paid far to much!
They generate money,thats why they get paid what they do, it is called a market. Who are you to decide on some stupid random figue of what they "should" earn.

[Jayhawk]

i think there should be a maximum wage for footie players. £30,000 a week. which is still a fu*king lot! they get paid far to much!
Fine. Buy a team and don't pay anyone over 30,000. Problem solved.

[pc4th]

Other factors do play a role (for example greater supply of star talents in soccer) but I believe the biggest factor is the transfer fees for the big soccer clubs and the lack thereof for American big teams.

Aks yourself, if the Yankees or Red Sox or Mets can afford the current salary for the star players if their $0 transfer fees expense becomes $25-30 million expense each year?

Red Sox payroll without $0 transfer fees = $120 million
Red Sox payroll with a $25 mil transfer fees= $95 million


http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268786

Average transfer expense per year (from 2001 to 2005) from transfer fees.
Transfer fee expense = transfer paid - transfer received

Chelsea: $83.7 million a year
Real Madrid: $41.67 million a year
Manchester United: $36 million a year
Barcelona: $25 million a year
AC Milan: $22 million a year
Liverpool: $15.2 million a year
Juventus: $15 million a year


Income Statement for Manchester United(one with transfer fees and without transfer fees)

With transfer fees (the current world):

Revenue: $315 million
Expense:
----Wages/Salary Expense: $150 million
----Transfer Fees Expense: $36 million
----Other Expense: $100 million
Income: $29 million

Without transfer fees hypothetical world

Revenue: $315 million
Expense:
----Wages/Salary Expense: $150 million
----Transfer Fees Expense: $0 million
----Other Expense: $100 million
Income: $65 million

In other word, Manchester United would have $36 million extra a year to pay extra for star players or it could go straight into the owner's pocket, or a combination of the two. Since the market is competitive, the team that spend the most amount to sign a player will likely get a player, it is likely that over 70% of that $36 million will go toward the star players.

p.s. Top American sports team (the equivalent of Man U, Chelsea, Real, Barcelona, AC Milan) exists in the second scenario (the hypothetical without a transfer fees world) and therefore has more money to pay for players.

----about half of BS posters agree with the above theory. I guess time will prove who is right and who is wrong. Time = more star players doing a Ballack (moving from an elite team to an elite team on a free). American star players has figured it out long ago. Arod, Ramirez, Shaq (in NBA) are some examples.

[sinner78]

The MLB wages are crazy .Even Chan Ho Park bags 15 mil a season. :eek:

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Not this crap again.

*groan*

[The Double]

I'm not sure whats funnier, Keith Van Horn at 14 million, or Sammy Sosa at 17 million.

[RichardL]

Red Sox payroll without $0 transfer fees = $120 million
Red Sox payroll with a $25 mil transfer fees= $95 million

with a $95 million payroll, do you think they'd have a salary scale like teams here, or do you think they'd have a MLB style salary scale, paying the stars a fortune and the rest comparitively little?


Because if it's the latter (and the multitude of MLB teams with $95 million or less salary budgets who pay MLB style salary scales overwhelmingly points in that direction) then you are looking at a fundemental difference in the way the respective sports decide to pay their squads. In that case, transfer fees make hardly any difference at all.

[General Manager]

Newcastle highest paid player for some unknown reason is Dyer who is on £80,000 a week


How the hell did that happen? Dyer is not even close to being worth that money. I know I'm a Newcastle fan.

[Toon³]

How the hell did that happen? Dyer is not even close to being worth that money. I know I'm a Newcastle fan.

Well not that much of a fan since you should know that we are run by a retarted monkey called Freddy Shephard.