Every Premier League club’s highest earners: Man City stars lead; Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal best-paid players revealed

Bruno Guimaraes, Mo Salah and Kai Havertz

Bruno Guimaraes, Mo Salah and Kai Havertz are all on big wages

The Premier League continues to grow in popularity and it is unsurprisingly home to some of the highest-paid players in the world.

Every Premier League club now receives hundreds of millions in television money and average pay packets have subsequently skyrocketed in recent years.

Not including any potential bonuses, we’ve taken a look at the top five highest-earning players from each Premier League club.

Note: An asterisk indicates that the player is spending the 2024/25 season on loan at the club.

Arsenal’s highest-paid players

1. Kai Havertz – £280,000-per-week
2. Gabriel Jesus – £265,000-per-week
3= Declan Rice – £240,000-per-week
3= Martin Odegaard – £240,000-per-week
5. Thomas Partey – £200,000-per-week

Havertz moved across London in the summer of 2023 and got a slight pay rise, going from £250,000-per-week at Chelsea to £280,000-per-week at Arsenal.

The Germany international could earn an additional £50,000-per-week in bonuses, while Odegaard’s wages reach £300,000-per-week with bonuses.

Bukayo Saka falls just outside of the top five with a base salary of £195,000-per-week but his contract allows him to earn an additional £100,000-per-week.

Aston Villa’s highest-paid players

1. Marcus Rashford – £225,000-per-week*
2= Youri Tielemans – £150,000-per-week
2= Emiliano Martinez – £150,000-per-week
2= Boubacar Kamara – £150,000-per-week
5= Amadou Onana – £140,000-per-week
5= Donyell Malen – £140,000-per-week

Rashford is spending the second half of the 2024/25 season on loan at Villa and they are covering 75% of his £300,000-per-week salary.

There is a three-way tie to be Villa’s second-highest earner as Tielemans, Martinez and Kamara are all earning £150,000-per-week.

Bournemouth’s highest-paid players

1. Evanilson – £85,000-per-week
2. Justin Kluivert – £80,000-per-week
3. Kepa Arrizabalaga – £75,000-per-week*
4. Ryan Christie – £70,000-per-week
5. Luis Sinisterra – £65,000-per-week

Bournemouth paid a club-record £40.2million to sign Evanilson from Porto in the summer and they are also paying the striker £85,000-per-week.

Kepa Arrizabalaga left Chelsea to join the Cherries on a season-long loan deal and both sides are covering half of his £150,000-per-week wages.

Brentford’s highest-paid players

1. Aaron Hickey – £70,000-per-week
2. Ben Mee – £55,000-per-week
3= Igor Thiago – £50,000-per-week
3= Mathias Jensen – £50,000-per-week
3= Keane Lewis-Potter – £50,000-per-week

Brentford are widely regarded to be among the best-run and most financially sustainable clubs in England and it’s easy to see why.

The Bees have a tightly controlled wage bill and they are the only club in the Premier League that don’t pay a player more than £70,000-per-week.

Brighton’s highest-paid players

1. Ferdi Kadioglu – £87,500-per-week
2= Lewis Dunk – £80,000-per-week
2= Kaoru Mitoma – £80,000-per-week
4. Georginio Rutter – £75,000-per-week
5= Danny Welbeck – £60,000-per-week
5= James Milner – £60,000-per-week
5= Mats Wieffer – £60,000-per-week

Kadioglu joined Brighton & Hove Albion from Fenerbahce last summer and got a pay rise, going from £47,000-per-week in Turkey to £87,500-per-week in England.

The Seagulls also paid a club-record £40million to sign Rutter from Leeds United and they are paying the striker £75,000-per-week.

Chelsea’s highest-paid players

1. Reece James – £250,000-per-week
2. Raheem Sterling – £215,000-per-week
3. Wesley Fofana – £200,000-per-week
4. Christopher Nkunku – £195,000-per-week
5. Enzo Fernandez – £180,000-per-week

Raheem Sterling was the highest-paid player at Stamford Bridge last season, but he’s spending the 2024/25 campaign on loan at Arsenal.

Chelsea are still paying him around £215,000-per-week during his time at the Emirates, while Arsenal are covering the remaining £110,000.

Crystal Palace’s highest-paid players

1. Daichi Kamada – £105,000-per-week
2= Ben Chilwell – £100,000-per-week*
2= Eberechi Eze – £100,000-per-week
2= Dean Henderson – £100,000-per-week
5. Eddie Nketiah – £90,000-per-week

While Palace didn’t have to pay a transfer fee for Kamada, they did make the Japan international the highest-paid player at the club and he can also an extra £45,000-per-week in bonuses.

The Eagles are also covering half of Chilwell’s £200,000-per-week salary during his six-month loan spell at Selhurst Park.

Everton’s highest-paid players

1. Abdoulaye Doucoure – £130,000-per-week
2. Jordan Pickford – £125,000-per-week
3. Idrissa Gueye – £120,000-per-week
4= Dominic Calvert-Lewin – £100,000-per-week
4= James Tarkowski – £100,000-per-week

Doucoure and Calvert-Lewin are among the highest-paid players at Everton, although they both have less than six months left on their contracts.

Fulham’s highest-paid players

1. Bernd Leno – £130,000-per-week
2= Reiss Nelson – £100,000-per-week*
2= Raul Jimenez – £100,000-per-week
4. Joachim Andersen – £90,000-per-week
5. Alex Iwobi – £80,000-per-week

Leno’s £130,000-per-week wages make him the highest-paid player at Fulham and Jimenez’s wages can reach £120,000-per-week with bonuses.

Nelson left Arsenal to spend the 2024/25 season on loan at Craven Cottage and Fulham will cover all of his £100,000-per-week wages.

Ipswich Town’s highest-paid players

1. Kalvin Phillips – £150,000-per-week*
2. Ben Godfrey – £75,000-per-week*
3. Axel Tuanzebe – £40,000-per-week
4= Jens Cajuste – £35,000-per-week*
4= Arijanet Muric – £35,000-per-week
4= Dara O’Shea – £35,000-per-week

Ipswich Town secured back-to-back promotions to reach the Premier League and they have the lowest wage bill in the top-flight in 2024/25.

But they are able to cover the full wages of Phillips, Godfrey and Cajuste, who are on loan from Manchester City, Everton and Napoli respectively.

Leicester City’s highest-paid players

1. Jamie Vardy – £140,000-per-week
2= Harry Winks – £90,000-per-week
2= Odsonne Edouard – £90,000-per-week*
4= Ricardo Pereira – £80,000-per-week
4= Boubakary Soumare – £80,000-per-week

Vardy is the highest-paid player in Leicester’s history, although he will leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season.

Edouard joined the Foxes from Crystal Palace on a season-long loan deal last summer and they are covering all of his £90,000-per-week wages.

Liverpool’s highest-paid players

1. Mohamed Salah – £400,000-per-week
2. Virgil Van Dijk – £350,000-per-week
3. Trent Alexander-Arnold – £180,000-per-week
4. Andrew Robertson – £160,000-per-week
5= Alisson – £150,000-per-week
5= Ryan Gravenberch – £150,000-per-week
5= Alexis Mac Allister – £150,000-per-week
5= Federico Chiesa – £150,000-per-week

Salah has a base salary of £400,000-per-week and Van Dijk can reach that figure with bonuses, making them the highest-paid players in Liverpool’s history.

Alexander-Arnold looks set to leave Liverpool when his contract expires at the end of the season and Real Madrid are winning the race for his signature.

Manchester City’s highest-paid players

1. Erling Haaland – £525,000-per-week
2. Kevin De Bruyne – £400,000-per-week
3= Jack Grealish – £300,000-per-week
3= Bernardo Silva – £300,000-per-week
5. John Stones – £250,000-per-week

Haaland is the highest-paid player in Premier League history and earns £525,000-per-week, which equates to £27.3million-per-year.

The Norway international also has a series of bonuses in his contract that could see his weekly wage surge beyond the £875,000 mark.

Manchester United’s highest-paid players

1. Casemiro – £350,000-per-week
2. Bruno Fernandes – £300,000-per-week
3. Mason Mount – £250,000-per-week
4. Matthijs de Ligt – £195,000-per-week
5. Harry Maguire – £190,000-per-week.

After their cross-city rivals, United have the second-highest wage bill in the Premier League in the 2024/25 season and a lot of their contracts include potential bonuses.

Casemiro can earn an additional £100,000-per-week, Fernandes can earn an additional £75,000-per-week while Mount can make an additional £50,000-per-week.

Marcus Rashford, Antony and Jadon Sancho used to be in United’s top five but they are all out on loan at other clubs.

Newcastle United’s highest-paid players

1. Bruno Guimaraes – £160,000-per-week
2= Anthony Gordon – £150,000-per-week
2= Joelinton – £150,000-per-week
4= Alexander Isak – £120,000-per-week
4= Kieran Trippier – £120,000-per-week
4= Sandro Tonali – £120,000-per-week

Guimaraes is the highest-paid player at Newcastle and his contract includes clauses that could take his wage up to £200,000-per-week.

Tonali can earn an additional £35,000-per-week in performance-related bonuses, while Gordon can get another £20,000-per-week.

Nottingham Forest’s highest-paid players

1. Nikola Milenkovic – £105,000-per-week
2. Chris Wood – £90,000-per-week
3= Callum Hudson-Odoi – £80,000-per-week
3= Morgan Gibbs-White – £80,000-per-week
5. Ibrahim Sangare – £75,000-per-week

Milenkovic arrived at Nottingham Forest last summer and signed a £105,000-per-week deal, making him the highest-paid player at the City Ground.

Wood has been in brilliant form in the 2024/25 season and recently moved up to second place after signing a new two-year contract.

Southampton’s highest-paid players

1. Aaron Ramsdale – £120,000-per-week
2= Joe Aribo – £70,000-per-week
2= Jan Bednarek – £70,000-per-week
4= Adam Lallana – £45,000-per-week
4= Jack Stephens – £45,000-per-week
4= Lesley Ugochukwu – £45,000-per-week*

Ramsdale joined Southampton in a £25million deal in the summer, and he is earning the same £120,000-per-week wage that he got at Arsenal.

The Saints agreed to pay Ugochukwu his full £45,000-per-week salary after signing the midfielder from Chelsea on a season-long loan deal.

Tottenham’s highest-paid players

1. Son Heung-min – £190,000-per-week
2. James Maddison – £170,000-per-week
3= Timo Werner – £165,000-per-week*
3= Cristian Romero – £165,000-per-week
5. Dejan Kulusevski – £110,000-per-week

Following Harry Kane’s move to Bayern Munich in the summer of 2023, Son Heuing-min is now the highest-paid player at Tottenham.

Spurs will cover Werner’s £165,000-per-week wages once again in the 2024/25 season after they agreed to extend his loan deal from RB Leipzig.

Tottenham stars Cristian Romero and Son Heung-min
Tottenham stars Cristian Romero and Son Heung-min

West Ham United’s highest-paid players

1= Lucas Paqueta – £150,000-per-week
1= Jarrod Bowen – £150,000-per-week
3. Danny Ings – £125,000-per-week
4. Alphonse Areola – £120,000-per-week
5. James Ward-Prowse – £115,000-per-week

West Ham broke their transfer record to sign Paqueta in 2022 and they also shelled out a significant pay packet, handing him a £150,000-per-week contract.

Bowen joined Paqueta as the joint highest-paid player at the Hammers when he signed a new seven-year contract in October 2023.

Wolves’ highest-paid players

1= Matheus Cunha – £90,000-per-week
1= Goncalo Guedes – £90,000-per-week
1= Pablo Sarabia – £90,000-per-week
4. Nelson Semedo – £80,000-per-week
5= Joao Gomes – £70,000-per-week
5= Hee-chan Hwang – £70,000-per-week

Cunha has been in brilliant form in 2024/25 and recently signed a £90,000-per-week new contract at Wolves to make him the joint-highest-paid player at the club.

But his contract also includes a £62.5million release clause and Manchester United are now looking to sign the Brazil international.

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