about how much does a soccer player get paid
Salaries in MLS for non designated players range from $36,500 to $387,500. The league minimum is 36,500 for players below age 25. If a player is older then 25 the league minimum is $48,500. One player I want to point out is Jeff Larentowicz. Designated players can make more than salary caps, making their salaries much higher than other players in the team. For example, the highest paid player in the MLS, Clint Dempsey, earns $4,913,004 per year, but the lowest salary in the league earns $31,125. The National Women’s Soccer League manages women's professional soccer in the U.S. This league only started in 2013 and, as yet, does not have average salary figures. For one thing, the entire market for professional soccer in the US is small — male players have minimum salaries of $36,500, and about a quarter of the MLS league makes less than $50,000 (though the top players make millions). For another, no one goes to games. Perhaps related, there’s very little sponsorship. Average Salaries in the MLS. The average annual salary for soccer players in the MLS for the 2013 season is $148,693.26. This average varies by player position. Goalkeepers earn an average of $85,296.48; defenders $109,119.61; midfielders $129,573.88; and forwards $251,805.21. Women's soccer in the United States follows the worldwide trend in terms of earnings -- female players do not typically have the earning capacity of male players. Salaries in the NWSL range from $6,000 to $30,000 per year. There's one big difference — revenue. Female soccer players are paid less because their sport makes less. According to the Wall Street Journal, there was $17 million in sponsor revenue for this year's women's World Cup compared to $529 million for the 2014 men's tournament. On Thursday’s national conference call previewing the inaugural National Women’s Soccer League season, league executive director Cheryl Bailey said players’ salaries will range from $6,000-$30,000. The majority of players in the NWSL will never see anything close to that top figure. Assume that you want to pay one player $250k, two players $200k, three players $70k, and 5 players $50k plus $30k to three who are mainly substitutes, then you would have a salary bill of $1.2m. To that you need to add hidden employment costs, not least health insurance. Take the Sounders for example, their 3 designated players are all over $350k, ($4M being the highest), seven players making at least $100K (the highest being $275K), seven players making at least $45k and nine players making $44k or less (the lowest being $33k). Some of the better free agents in the league are earning under $20,000 and Canadian and Mexican national team players are also in the middle of that range. That sort of pay is comparable to the final season (2011) of Women’s Professional Soccer, when salaries dropped significantly. But at that point for WPS, the damage was already done. The higher end of that range, no doubt, accounts for some of the US players.
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$148,693.26