Championship wage bills 23/24 published

[Rob GT4]

Apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere, just thought it was really interesting seeing published figures for the spending of all the other clubs in our division, and comparing it to ours. Not neccessarily the order I thought, some clubs have spent considerably more than I’d expected. You'd have to say Ipswich have done very well with the money they've spent too


1. Leicester City – £60,190,000

2. Southampton – £40,014,000

3. Leeds United – £39,513,000

4. Norwich City – £24,196,000

5. West Bromwich Albion – £23,060,000

6. Cardiff City – £19,444,000

7. Stoke City – £18,340,000

8. Watford – £14,952,000

9. Sheffield Wednesday – £14,584,000

10. Middlesbrough – £13,582,000

11. Birmingham City – £13,228,000

12. Bristol City – £12,894,000

13. Hull City – £12,333,200

14. Swansea City – £12,276,000

15. Queens Park Rangers – £12,020,000

16. Ipswich Town – £11,378,000

17. Preston North End – £10,942,200

18. Coventry City – £10,008,000

19. Millwall – £9,856,000

20. Huddersfield Town – £9,258,000

21. Sunderland – £9,150,000

22. Blackburn Rovers – £7,678,000

23. Rotherham United – £6,674,000

24. Plymouth Argyle – £6,060,000


Average appears be around 12-14m, basically just over double ours.

 

[The Doctor]

The top 5 in the money league all in the top 5 of the actual league.

 

[Biggs]

Do you have a source?

Edit… I see it’s Capology, i don't think that‘s correct as there’s no way Ben Waine is only on a grand a week and Michael Cooper on 3.5k.

2023-2024 Plymouth Salaries and Contracts

Capology | Football Salaries & Finances

www.capology.com

 

[Rob GT4]

The question I'm finding myself asking is, isn't that less than we spent in league 1, like possibly only 2/3rds of the wage bill in league 1 in fact? I mean I'm not suprised by that, I've felt all season that we've really tried to do this as cheap as physically possible, but surely getting promoted to the championship and considerably reducing your wage bill is very questionable, and shows a real lack of any desire/commitment by the club to actually try and sustain ourselves in the championship.

I guess we're seeing a diversion of funds into other projects (Brickfields etc), but if we do get relegated surely that's a massive blunder and a case of false economy given the millions and millions we'd then miss out on in TV money by not being in the championship.

 

[Sun Stonehouse]

Read it and weep. Our natural division these days is League Division One. No disgrace, money talks, end of.

 

[Rob GT4]

Do you have a source?

Edit… I see it’s Capology, i don't think that‘s correct as there’s no way Ben Waine is only on a grand a week and Michael Cooper on 3.5k.

2023-2024 Plymouth Salaries and Contracts

Capology | Football Salaries & Finances

www.capology.com

I'm not in a position to dispute individual figures like that and I doubt many people are, so this is going to be the best we've got.

I'd bet that the general order of the teams relative to each other is going to be there or thereabouts

 

[Jon with no H]

Can these figures really be correct based on the Argyle and Ipswich reported wage bills from last season both being around £3m and 8m higher respectively?

 

[djg145]

Just shows what an amazing job McKenna has done at Ipswich.

 

[Montybulldog]

Apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere, just thought it was really interesting seeing published figures for the spending of all the other clubs in our division, and comparing it to ours. Not neccessarily the order I thought, some clubs have spent considerably more than I’d expected. You'd have to say Ipswich have done very well with the money they've spent too


1. Leicester City – £60,190,000

2. Southampton – £40,014,000

3. Leeds United – £39,513,000

4. Norwich City – £24,196,000

5. West Bromwich Albion – £23,060,000

6. Cardiff City – £19,444,000

7. Stoke City – £18,340,000

8. Watford – £14,952,000

9. Sheffield Wednesday – £14,584,000

10. Middlesbrough – £13,582,000

11. Birmingham City – £13,228,000

12. Bristol City – £12,894,000

13. Hull City – £12,333,200

14. Swansea City – £12,276,000

15. Queens Park Rangers – £12,020,000

16. Ipswich Town – £11,378,000

17. Preston North End – £10,942,200

18. Coventry City – £10,008,000

19. Millwall – £9,856,000

20. Huddersfield Town – £9,258,000

21. Sunderland – £9,150,000

22. Blackburn Rovers – £7,678,000

23. Rotherham United – £6,674,000

24. Plymouth Argyle – £6,060,000


Average appears be around 12-14m, basically just over double ours.

Two real surprises there, Cardiff being so high and biggest surprise Sutherland being so low.

 

[ChepstowGreen]

If true it just goes to show the massive task we had this season.

If not true, then, well, these are just the sort of figures that clubs should be forced to reveal, not of individuals, just a wage bill as a whole.

I would say publish at the start of the season, and then again at the end.

 

[Dorset Green]

All the salaries quoted for Argyle players are unverified estimates produced by a computer programme as are those for most of the other clubs and players.

Is it really likely that Connor Hazard is being paid half as much again as Ryan Hardie and double Michael Cooper?

They probably give some sort of indication of the relative spending of one club compared to another but I wouldn't go further than that. I would also think it likely that our wage bill is higher than shown. I can't believe the Ipswich figure is correct.

 

[mutley marvel]

Just shows what we are up against
Other clubs that pay double or triple what we pay be interesting to see their end of year accounts & whether they are on the radar of the EFL in respect of FFP

 

[Johnp]

All those supporters moaning about spending money on the Brickfields and not players should look to the long term.

You spend millions on players who after a few years have very little value and no training facilities.
Spend millions on training facilities and they are available for years to come.

The Academy ... with the grants available... is the future as is the Brickfields.

 

[Rob GT4]

All those supporters moaning about spending money on the Brickfields and not players should look to the long term.

You spend millions on players who after a few years have very little value and no training facilities.
Spend millions on training facilities and they are available for years to come.

The Academy ... with the grants available... is the future as is the Brickfields.

It's a delicate balance though. Although I'd agree with your point, just by being in the championship the club receives millions and millions in revenue from a share of TV rights etc (and this is likely to be even more next year), which in turn gives us the capacity to invest in projects like that.

Being relegated and losing out on that revenue as a result of underinvesting in a team that could sustain itself in the championship is a false economy, and will cost the club significantly more in both the short and long term.

 

[Mark Smith]

All those supporters moaning about spending money on the Brickfields and not players should look to the long term.

You spend millions on players who after a few years have very little value and no training facilities.
Spend millions on training facilities and they are available for years to come.

The Academy ... with the grants available... is the future as is the Brickfields.

Very true. Gone are the days (hopefully, unless we plummet down the leagues) that someone walks out of the dockyard into our first team.

Whittaker, Azaz, Mumba, Gibson, Hardie... they were all in someone's academy once. If we want to be able to keep on singing "he's one of our own" then Brickfields is the future.

That's not to say I would not favour short-term investment on players as well, if someone is willing and we are not saddled with huge debts.