Premier League - Average Premier League player earns £30,000 a week

While the
majority of the country continues to struggle with wages falling in
real terms against inflation, footballers’ pay has risen sharply.In the Premier League, the average wage has now doubled
in the last six years, and according to figures compiled by Deloitte’s
Sports Business Unit, the average Premier League player earns £30,000 a
week.

According to the Office of National Statistics, the average annual
earnings of workers in the UK is now £26,500 – so it is now no
exaggeration to suggest that the average top flight footballer earns
more in a week than you do in a year.

The information on the Premier League is based on figures from the
2011/12 season, during which an astonishing £1.66bn was spent across the
division on wages.

Manchester City’s wage bill was the highest – they committed £202m to
wages - while Swansea by contrast were the most parsimonious, but still
spent £35m paying their players.

Raheem Sterling, the 18-year-old who broke into the Liverpool team
this season, is believed to have signed a new deal of around
£30,000-a-week this season, making him (in one sense at least) the
average Premier League footballer.

The new television rights deal kicking in this summer, which will see
every club get approximately an extra £25m, is only expected to drive
up wages still further.

But all is not quite so rosy for footballers as the figures above
would suggest. According to the Daily Star, 150 ex-players are currently
in prison after their careers fell apart after football, and 700
professionals were out of a job after last season ended.

Now remember -- this is AVERAGE. People like RVP earn 190k + A week. They probably wipe their asses with £50 notes.

why is it unfair? people like the team owners can pay whatever they want to the players, they can use their money as they please. What do you suggest, is not like they would give away their money for charity and paying less to the players wont make the other people struggling earn more money. And if you still think that this is unfair you should check out other sports wages like baseball or american football because they are a lot higher than the wages in EPL.

Not to mention that WWE wrestlers earn millions a year just to fake fights, lift weights, and slap some fake blood on their face. They call that "entertainment".

@Dynastian98, what are you on about? WWE wrestling is all real.

Well actually it's scripted and not real fights, but they do get hurt playing matches. A lot. The moves they do in a match could hurt like hell if not practiced enough, luckily for WWE, they're professionals.

@Vendetta, I was just joking, but ok...

@heisinburg it's hard conveying sarcasm through text...

In every sport it's like that and in all countries.

this is disgusting :S

@Koldimere : that's why i like using emoticons in texting ! just to make sure that i've been understood well and my impression has been presented properly :)

where have you been through your whole life? professional football has been always that way through all times

@Tunais it is unfair because their are people working their asses of everyday and are having problems with money, because their are people dying out there because of lack of food and water, because all they are doing is running around in grass for 90 minutes. And some of them get paid £150 k a week.

It may be unfair but it is nothing new. There are people who do less than football players and get even more money. What is your point? It is unfair that they earn those amounts of money while people are starving but there is nothing to do about it... You cant go like Robin Hood this days.

THAT is my point .. the whole post is to with my point :)