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average salary of premier player
« on: June 13, 2017, 02:14:36 AM »
some annual report came out at the weekend - sorry I dont have a link to it - but it said average salary of a player contracted to a PL club is 47,000 per week.

Probably explains why we have a lean squad.

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Re: average salary of premier player
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2017, 11:25:51 AM »
some annual report came out at the weekend - sorry I dont have a link to it - but it said average salary of a player contracted to a PL club is 47,000 per week.

Probably explains why we have a lean squad.

Does that take into account the entire squad? And also the youngsters?

Tried to make an average for us based on the numbers reported in the annual report, but the wage cost is for all staff and not just players. 

We spent a total of £73,742,000 on wages last year (all included), which was 75% of our total turnover. I think that's the reason we don't see masses of new players without first getting existing players off the books.

If that 73 million was purely the squad of 22's annual wages, we'd have an average weekly wage bill of £64,500 odd. Obviously there's all the other staff to take into account so that figure is nowhere near accurate. What is accurate is that last year we paid £1,418,115 every week in wages to all staff!