PLAYERS WAGES

This is a link ...hopefully to average wage per profession of 270 different types of profession.

Welshie7 wrote: No7 if you think players in the Championship hit a ceiling of 50K you are SO WAY off!!!!!

Welshie are you sure that’s a lot of money, for a10 month season that’s 15k, then 2.5k per 10 games potentially 22.5k per year then the other benefits you are looking at £30k+ for one player. We all know one player doesn’t make a team, unless every other player is on a fiver a game the playing budget must run around £500k for level 4 that is huge and probably dwarfs many in level 3. 

Depends.... I know one player who was training with a champ team full-time and earnt money from playing on loan. However there was another who was a first team player, who was on match fees only - I assume he got expenses aswell. Recently, I know a 3rd choice player earning £6,000 plus Accomadation. The club however then had key players being paid around 70,000..... - however this was paid by a sponsor.

A club I know, were stating that they were paying minimum wage. So taking that assuming that was the average wage of the squad. Then the average wage would be £15,000. This was used as the reason for them to need to move away from the 4 days a week training schedule, as they were unable to reduce the wages anymore.

Edited by dropout22 - 01 May 2020 at 19:31

The problem you have is there is no one to police any salary cap and you will have the serial offenders continuing to flout the rules/regulations and perhaps the taxman so until you can control/police any cap you will have this situation. Plus the punishments have to be meaningful to have any effect

Welshie7 wrote: No 7/Rabbie I think you would be shocked with the payments being made to players in levels 2-5.....and this is why the game needs to re-set and quickly.

A couple of points ...

Players INFLATE what they say they are earning, although we have heard some "stories" from players at level 4, that sound similar to your relative. However it always helps when they look for a new club, they try and get as much as they can and their starting point is "well where I'm playing at the moment, and they're Level 4, I earn X"

Secondly, we've finished 2nd in National 1 and our budget is not that large at all, only slightly more than what it was at Level 4 (and after our little run in with the RFU, it is common knowledge what it was to get promoted), paying large amounts of money to lots of players, DOES NOT guarantee success .... I would suggest that teamwork, ethos, hard work, excellent game plan well executed and good coaching goes a very long way instead ...

Thirdly, you are right, there are some obscene payments at all levels but I know from an agent that the average money in The Championship is between £25K - £35k, and I wouldn't say that is a lot of money, I would even go to suggest that some players have earned more at Level 3, with a couple of the more "ambitious" clubs but if a sponsor wants to throw lots of money at his pet experiment, that is his choice. If the members of that club allow themselves to be massively dependent on a sole "benefactor", that again is their decision.

No, the real challenge all clubs face and the RFU as well, how do you keep those hundreds of players who start at the U/6's and then get to post Colts level and are appearing to drift away because until you solve that conundrum, the money situation is a bit of a red herring because if there is that much money in the game at all levels, why are the number of players playing SENIOR rugby dropping year on year, when apparently, there is lots of money to be earned playing rugby?

My understanding was that the figures owed to the Leeds players were the remainder of two year or eighteen month contracts, so payments for the last part of 2018/9 and for 2019/20. The Kiwis came over on 18 month deals, I had  understood, as a half season deal was understandably insufficient to tempt them.