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Post by knowingeye on Nov 1, 2011 11:36:07 GMT
REVEALED: Official English football wage figures for the past 25 years By Alex Miller & Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
30 October 2011
The amount of money paid to English professional footballers each season since 1984-85 is revealed in detail for the first time today.
Sportingintelligence has obtained an official PFA document showing the average basic weekly wages, division by division, for the past 25 years, with the exception of the top division in the Premier League era. www.sportingintelligence.com/2011/10/30/revealed-official-english-football-wage-figures-for-the-past-25-years-301002/
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Post by Menorca Stokie on Nov 1, 2011 13:32:40 GMT
thanls knowingeye, very interesting. the 4th tier makes interesting reading. Not a lot different than the average wage for the man in the street. For a player the only place to be is the premiership.
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Post by shep207 on Nov 1, 2011 13:46:55 GMT
thanls knowingeye, very interesting. the 4th tier makes interesting reading. Not a lot different than the average wage for the man in the street. For a player the only place to be is the premiership. I would settle for £38K a year to play football every week  |
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Nov 1, 2011 13:54:34 GMT
In my opinion, the most interesting fact is that in 94-95, the average workers salary was a little over 40% of that for a top flight footballer compared to a miserly 2.9% in 2009-10 and I dare say that'll only get greater this financial year with workers salaries just about static and Premiership players stealing err earning even more!
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Post by stokevegas on Nov 1, 2011 14:12:43 GMT
Thanks for that knowingeye; a really interesting read.
I was looking through the match programme from my first ever Stoke away game the other week (Coventry City 1979/80). There's an interview with Les Sealey in which he mentions that he's just bought a new car; a secondhand Reliant Scimitar for £1,000. Nice enough car for the time, but how many top-flight footballers drive around in nice enough secondhand cars these days?
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Post by jonah77 on Nov 1, 2011 14:36:37 GMT
why was their such a big jump in the 3rd division in 2003/4 then back down again the season after?
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Post by wearestoke10 on Nov 1, 2011 14:46:27 GMT
It goes without saying that the man in the street is still becoming more and more seperated from those on the pitch. Im sure when I read stuart pearce's book at one stage he was still doing work as an electrician and even advertised in the matchday programme. I cant imagine even league 2 players having to have a sideline nowadays which could lead to issues in coaching in years to come as it will only be the desire to coach and not the financial incentive that drives them to do it
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Post by luke2u on Nov 1, 2011 14:57:46 GMT
why was their such a big jump in the 3rd division in 2003/4 then back down again the season after? Huddersfield players must have been on really high wages. |
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Post by knowingeye on Nov 1, 2011 16:57:39 GMT
why was their such a big jump in the 3rd division in 2003/4 then back down again the season after? Jonah. Could that coincide with ITV Digital going bump and the sponsorship deal trickling to its end? Also obvious I know but this is "average" so given what we know about some players' wages from the media and agents it means that some League One and Two players must be earning very little, well below the average wage and probably playing just to stay in the game. I also know that many conference clubs are paying better than some League One and League Two clubs. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2011 17:37:10 GMT
That footnote underneath is important. Bonuses equal between 50-100% of basic pay.
In other words, that probably cancels out the higher rate of tax and NI deductions, so those figures represent take home pay!
Not so shabby!
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Post by skip on Nov 1, 2011 19:44:58 GMT
From five times more to play in the top division to the fourth to thirty times the salary. Footballers are in the 1%. Speaks volumes.
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Post by Trouserdog on Nov 1, 2011 21:27:54 GMT
Looking at that I was delighted to find that I earn more than the average Uk wage... Then I realised I was looking at 1992. ;D  |
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Post by Trouserdog on Nov 1, 2011 21:32:52 GMT
Goes to show how poor wages are in Stoke though. I check the paper every Wednesday to see what's about and very rarely do I see anything over 35k (supposedly the average wage ???). Most jobs tend to be in the 17-22k range, which according to this, was the average wage nearly 15-20 years ago.  |
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Post by scfc75 on Nov 1, 2011 21:45:58 GMT
Goes to show how poor wages are in Stoke though. I check the paper every Wednesday to see what's about and very rarely do I see anything over 35k (supposedly the average wage ???). Most jobs tend to be in the 17-22k range, which according to this, was the average wage nearly 15-20 years ago. I would assume that the 'average' wage includes top earners, i.e. company directors, bankers etc... there will be plenty of people earning £1m+ a year in there to skew the figures. Most of us look at 'average' as being the wage your run of the mill guy will earn, which I expect would be nearer to your £20k figure quoted once you take the top brass out. Either way, that article saddens me. |
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