How much do English / Australian Rugby League players get paid?

Question

What would be an average salary? And how much would a guy like Willie Mason get paid?

Answer 1

A pint and a bj.

Answer 2

The salary cap for English Super League teams is £1.8 million pounds per year. Although this number is the maximum amount that can be spent on players salaries, many of the clubs in the Super League don't make enough revenue to pay their players this amount. For instance I believe the Salford City Reds pay their players around £1.3 million pounds per year.

If you take Wigan Warriors for example they garner big enough crowds and make a great deal from merchandising, as well as having a very rich chairman so that they can pay up to the £1.8 million limit (in fact last season they payed over this amount to their players and have been docked two points from the league, and have also been fined).

If Wigan have twenty five playing personnel and they pay the maximum of the salary cap then the average amount is £72,000 per player per year.

The most important players in a squad are obviously payed the most. I imagine that Kevin Sinfield and Danny McGuire of the Leeds Rhinos are payed more than £200,000 each. Also the Super League clubs pay foreign players (mainly Australians and New Zealanders) more on average than the British players get.

In the English Super League there is a rule/law that states that each club cannot pay more than £20,000 each on more than twenty players (the 20/20 rule), therefore many of the younger members of the squad will each either get this amount (£20,000), or under this amount.

Answer 3

What the f...? We're supposed to be getting paid???

Answer 4

He gets paid around 300K... He gets paid a bit more because of his status. Average salary I would say 100 - 250K. c**p all compared to what they get paid In the English super league. So sad that we keep losing so many of our star players because of this.

Answer 5

According to the collective bargaining agreement [1] made by 14 rugby league clubs and the rugby league players association (RLPA) for the period 9 May 2005 to 31 October 2006,The New Zealand Warriors nor the Gold Coast Titans have signed.

Part 4 Clause 9.2 (a) says "17 of its Top 25 Players ... shall each be entitled to a Minimum Renumeration Package of $55,000 ..."

Clause 9.2 (b) says 'a further 8 Top 25 Players ... shall each be entitled to a Minimum Renumeration Package of $37,500."

Clause 9.3 "If any Player is not a Top 25 Player and he;

"(a)  is earning less than $18,000 as a Minimum Renumeration Package ... or

"(b)  is entitled to less than a $1,250 match fee for a win,

"that player shall be entitled to a minimum match fee of $2,000 for each NRL Competition match in which he participates ..."

Clause 9.4 "states if a player is working, is used as a standby player to train for, and provides evidence of lost wages,

"that player shall be entitled to a payment from his NRL Club by way of reimbursement of those lost wages up to a maximum of $150 per day ..."

This is placed in to state there is a minimum payment to a player who has to train for an NRL side.

I read that Andrew Johns was/is being paid $425.000 per season, and that this was the highest paid up until that point to one player.  I think he is still on that contract.

Therefore, in Australia an average salary would be $55,000 if you were one of the top 17 of 25, and $37,500 if you were in the bottom 8 of 25 top players.  If not a top 25 player, then you would earn around $18,000.

According to a thread at signs on san diego, Willie Mason was on $400,000 a season. [2]  This is also at [3].

Willie has since resigned with the Bulldogs[4], and will not trial for the NFL[5].  He is being paid $400,00 a season[6]. "If Mason opted to depart the Bulldogs kennel, it would mean severing the final three seasons of a $1.6 million contract." Date 09jun06

[7] under 'Income', page 1, the 4th paragraph on left hand side, "In 2001, the average income for ... Rugby Super League, (2.6 million pounds)"

Note: I do not have the pound symbol, only a dollar symbol.

Under 'Wages and Salaries', page 3, the 2nd paragraph on right hand side, "... had a wages/turnover ratio ... at around 77%."

This would equate to 2 million and 2 thousand pounds paid as wages on average for a club.

Under 'Wages and Salaries', page 3, the 3rd paragraph on left hand side, "Between 1998 and 2001 ... Rugby Super League wages have been relatively steady, with an overall growth of just 4% in that time (to an average of 2.0 million pounds per club); ..."

Under 'Wages and Salaried', page 3, the 4th paragraph on right hand side, "... the average [wage per player] ... in Rugby League at around 47,000 pounds, ..."

If we add the 4% steady increase since 2001, we get.

2002: 48,880

2003: 50,835

2004: 52,869

2005: 54,983

2006: 57,183

Therefore, as a guess, the average could be 57,000 pounds.

I could not find anything newer about contract amounts for super league.