Player salaries

[SoccerPrime]

MLS 2006 player salaries:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/mls/longterm/2006/mls.salaries.html

[fuegote]

Palencia, Juan Francisco $692,308 $1,360,000 :-O

[Dadof3]

Other than Brown at 80k and Nik (I may never see the pitch at MLS level) Besagno at 60K, none of our #s gave me heartburn.

[Burninator]

Don't forget we're still paying part of Mathis' salary...

⚽ Geoff
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[I_Believe_In_Kreis]

Since nerds like me can't resist crunching numbers.....here's each team ranked in order of highest to lowest total salary. Yes, this includes G:A salaries and no, I'm not going to separate them out.
Team Base Salary Guaranteed Salary
CHV $2,711,783 $3,604,403
LAG $2,575,560 $2,771,685
KCW $2,329,941 $2,583,423
DCU $2,058,775 $2,392,775
RSL $2,035,509 $2,262,468
FCD $1,944,448 $2,200,098
CHI $1,919,292 $2,172,792
COL $1,895,400 $2,109,550
HOU $1,815,913 $1,898,163
NER $1,666,830 $1,739,246
NYR $1,660,821 $1,856,779
CLB $1,655,937 $1,799,362

Here's my "bang for your buck" calculation - this is a raw measure of how much success each team is having given how much they're paying. Obviously at this point in the season it doesn't mean much, but we might want to revisit this later. The following numbers are dollars per point.

FCD $220,009.80/point
DCU $239,277.50/point
KCW $287,047.00/point
HOU $316,360.50/point
NER $434,811.50/point
CLB $449,840.50/point
COL $527,387.50/point
NYR $618,926.33/point
LAG $692,921.25/point
CHI $1,086,396.00/point
CHV $1,201,467.67/point
RSL $2,262,468.00/point

[Burninator]

Add in Mathis' salary portion that we are covering and that number rises to roughly $2.5 mil per point. Disgusting. Simply disgusting.

⚽ Geoff
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[El Chalan]

This may be a question that reveals my ignorance, but how in the world can some of these guys survive on $11,000 dollars? Especially living in places like LA?

[I_Believe_In_Kreis]

Originally Posted by El Chalan

This may be a question that reveals my ignorance, but how in the world can some of these guys survive on $11,000 dollars? Especially living in places like LA?

The quick answer is, they can't. That's why most of them live in Watts but panhandle in Corona del Mar. 🙂

Actually, a lot players who don't make a decent living wage moonlight as paid trainers for youth soccer teams. They make good money doing it - up to $100 per training session.

And you have to remember their salary isn't for a year's worth of work. In the offseason a lot of the younger players (in most cases the ones making the league minimum) return home to live with family, reducing their living expenses, and they also get jobs. Also they continue to have medical insurance through their team, and when you really look at it, it takes a surprisingly small salary to live when you're single and your medical coverage is taken care of.

[knowwonnose]

Originally Posted by El Chalan

This may be a question that reveals my ignorance, but how in the world can some of these guys survive on $11,000 dollars? Especially living in places like LA?

New York too. I can see someone straight out of college doing that for a year, but Cila. How long's he been at this and still making 16K. My first job out of college, I made that amount and was dirt poor. That was nearly 20 years ago. (Man, I'm getting old.) I can only think that the team provides some sort of housing/transportation for these players at that rate.

[Jose Luis Luviano]

Back in the 90's, supposedly, a player retired because he was going to be traded. The player's wife made a lot more money selling real estate than he did playing soccer, and would not have made as much in the city where his new club was going to be; so he quit.

I don't remember who it was, though.