An interesting take on league positions vs weekly wage bills...
Credit to @BenHD a PNE fan who creates fair, professional and generally interesting YouTube content:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLsAOQa7jKs

Wage data from here (although I'm not sure whether the numbers are accurate for loan players)
https://salarysport.com/football/#sky-bet-championship

There are clearly some very over paid players in the championship if this is accurate

Highlights the admirable jobs that Mark Robins, Rob Edwards and Tony Mowbray have done this season.

Looks like we are getting a good deal on Scott Twine's wage. Not too many shocks on our squad if these figures are true.

I'm amazed by our wage bill on that graph. Considering we lost so many high earners, and that the new players would be on considerably less, it just doesn't add up to my perception.

Do these figures include coaching staff?

I'd take that link for the club salaries with a LARGE pinch of salt... apparently we have 2 Manuel Benson's playing for us with different wages...

I usually take these with a pinch of salt, mainly because salaries are very much behind closed doors - how does anyone have access to such private detail?

Having said that, the £26m per year wage bill for us is around the mark which wouldn’t surprise me, and has been suggested by a poster on here from a ‘good source’ previously.

If reasonably accurate, it gives us really good scope for a transfer budget this summer, albeit there will be pay increases/promotion bonuses etc to consider.

It's a website that copies reported salaries from other websites. As in, it finds loads of made up figures and collates them. Individual players' salaries are not in the public domain and anyone posting them online has made it up or believed someone who has made it up.

I dont believe that Muric is on more than JBG, Cork and Brownhill. He's only 24, and had only played about 50 games before this season

Does this factor in loans in/outs?

I highly doubt that it's accurate

I would be shocked if all of these salaries are correct.
I just cannot see McNally being paid £10k more per week than Twine, who at the time of signing was classed as the best player in league 1.

Also, if this info is true and freely available to the public, surely the players and their agents would know.

I do believe the overall budget to be around £26m though.

Completely made up figures based on nothing other than speculation

Norwich have done well then. Not hard to see why our Ash has got the best deal for himself down there. Play at the highest level you can for the biggest wage. Nice one Ash.

Falcon wrote: ↑

Tue May 23, 2023 12:37 pm

Completely made up figures based on nothing other than speculation

To be fair, there has been a few "the fappening" style leaks of payslips for Premier League players in the past so i would assume the figures, whilst mostly based on assumption, guesswork and speculation will also have a bit more base than just pulling random figures out of the air.

What was our wage bill for 21/22, as a comparison.

Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑

Tue May 23, 2023 1:23 pm

What was our wage bill for 21/22, as a comparison.

90m (Inc playing and non-playing staff)

Saw an article in the last week or so ...cant remember where... that said Josh Brownhill was now the top paid player on 40k per week after Ashley Barnes had left. Suggests one of these stories is not correct.

Manuel Benson, so good we pay him twice!

You do wonder how accurate these are...

scouseclaret wrote: ↑

Tue May 23, 2023 1:59 pm

Manuel Benson, so good we pay him twice!

You do wonder how accurate these are...

Not only do we pay him twice he gets 2 different amounts as well... think we can imagine how accurate this is

Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑

Tue May 23, 2023 11:34 am

I'm amazed by our wage bill on that graph. Considering we lost so many high earners, and that the new players would be on considerably less, it just doesn't add up to my perception.

Do these figures include coaching staff?

We also had many PL players stay on. BPF, Lowton, Cork, Long, Brownhill, JBG, Barnes, JRod,etc,. Although they possibly had relegation deductions to reduce their income they would still be on a good wedge.

scouseclaret wrote: ↑

Tue May 23, 2023 1:59 pm

Manuel Benson, so good we pay him twice!

You do wonder how accurate these are...

£17k for BPF

This ain’t US sport.

We may have the highest wage bill in the league, but there’s no single source of EFL salaries and nobody has an insider in all 24 Championship HR departments. That’s all made up.

When are we going to move on from "weekly wages"

I'm not even sure what it means?

52 weeks a year? a week for every game the season is on? If you turn the microwave on, does that qualify you for another weeks wage?