The average salary for a Premier League player moved to over £3 million per year according to the Global Sports Salary Survey in late 2019. The average weekly pay for a first-team Premier League squad player is up over £60,000 per week, an increase of over £10,000 in just a couple of seasons
There are many careers in football, with coaching, managing and refereeing being some of the roles closest to the action but, if you have your heart set on becoming a professional footballer, you have a lot of work to do
While quarterbacks- the highest-paid members of a team- typically earn multi-year contracts for millions of dollars a year, the median salary of an NFL player is $860,000 per year. In 2022, quarterbacks made an average of over $7 million, while wide receivers averaged $2.8 million
Every NFL player who is on a team’s roster during the year will earn a base salary divided up into 18 installments. That covers the 17-game schedule and the bye week which make up the season. If a player gets cut during the season, the bulk of the money they expected to earn gets lost unless they have a guarantee
