PSG wages: Top 10 highest-paid players at reigning Champions League holders

Paris Saint-Germain may have moved on from the Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar era, but they’re still dishing out some huge salaries to their players.

PSG reached the promised land in 2025, winning the Champions League for the first time in their history. Their Qatari owners have been able to assemble some of the most well-paid squads in world football over the years, but they reached their ultimate aim after the departures of some of their most high-profile players.

Qatar Sports Investment purchased their stake in PSG back in 2011 and since then they have been using their financial muscle to attract some superstar talent.

During the 2023-24 season, PSG had the highest wage bill in Europe. In 2024-25, though, they streamlined their finances after the departure of Mbappe to Real Madrid and lowered their annual wage bill by about €80m.

Nevertheless, they still fork out more than most of their competitors on player salaries. It paid off with a clean sweep of trophies, except for the Club World Cup, in 2024-25.

The general feeling is that by shedding their absolute superstars, PSG have become more of a team. But which of their remaining players are earning the most money?

Here’s a countdown of their current top 10 best-paid players. Note, the conversions to pounds are subject to change, but are rounded to the nearest thousand as at the time of writing.

1. Ousmane Dembele 

• Weekly salary: €346,154 / £298,000
• Annual salary: €18m / £15.5m
• Contract until: 2028

The best-paid player at PSG until his departure in the summer of 2024 was Kylian Mbappe, but top of the ranking these days is Dembele.

After six years with Barcelona, who signed him for up to €145m back in 2017, Dembele returned to his native France with PSG in 2023.

For the last season of his Barcelona stay, he was earning more than €300,000 per week, but a year after his short-term renewal they sold him.

It was important for the LaLiga side to get their wage bill down, whereas PSG have been able to keep Dembele on a lucrative contract, tying him down for five years at €18m per season.

He has been good value too, with some sensational goalscoring numbers. His previous best tally for a season was 14 goals; he scored 35 in 2024-25, leading to him claiming the Ballon d’Or.

2. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

• Weekly salary: €314,615 / £271,000
• Annual salary: €16.36m / £14.1m
• Contract until: 2029

One of the biggest transfers in January 2025 saw PSG raid Napoli for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in a €70m deal.

His wages absolutely shot up as a result. After all, he was a hidden gem of a signing for Napoli in 2022 and was still on his original contract of €39,423 per week there – just over €2m per year.

For perspective, in Paris, he is now earning more than €16m per year.

Kvaratskhelia won Serie A as the league’s player of the season in his debut term in Italy, as well as the Champions League Young Player of the Season, and his move to PSG has reflected his high value.

He already has winner’s medals from Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and the Champions League to his name within six months of his switch to France, where he is tied down to a contract until 2029.

3. Marquinhos

• Weekly salary: €258,654 / £223,000
• Annual salary: €13.45m / £11.6m
• Contract until: 2028

PSG’s all-time record appearance maker and captain, Marquinhos has given more than a decade of service to the club after trading one capital city for another when leaving Roma in 2013.

Marquinhos was still a teenager when he joined PSG, but cost them more than €30m to sign. At the start of his journey in Paris, he was believed to be earning more than €14,000 per week.

He has since earned several renewals, with the first update to his terms coming as early as March 2015.

The Brazil defender’s current contract was signed in May 2023, with the five-year commitment meaning he would reach 15 years of service to the club if fulfilled.

PSG chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi enthused: “I remember when he joined the club at the age of 19. From day one, he showed great dedication and a winning spirit – always fighting for the Paris Saint-Germain jersey. His football talent, experience and commitment to the club are exceptional.”

=4. Lucas Hernandez

• Weekly salary: €253,846 / £218,861
• Annual salary: €13.2m / £11.4m
• Contract until: 2028

Despite being born in Marseille, Hernandez had never played in Ligue 1 until PSG bought him from Bayern Munich in 2023.

He actually accepted a fairly insignificant paycut to make the move, since he was earning €15m per year at Bayern but signed a deal worth €13.2m per year in Paris.

“I had the possibility of extending at Bayern, but PSG’s interest, their ambition and the project that the club wants to set up in the future, convinced me,” Hernandez said after signing his five-year deal, also citing his desire to return to his home country.

Hernandez suffered an ACL injury in May 2024, which kept him out for seven months, but he has since been working his way back into the team.

He was overtaken as the best-paid player in his family over the summer when his brother Theo left AC Milan to sign a €392,500-per-week deal with Al Hilal.

=4. Achraf Hakimi (€253,846 / £218,000)

• Weekly salary: €253,846 / £218,861
• Annual salary: €13.2m / £11.4m
• Contract until: 2029

After spells in Spain, Germany and Italy, it’s in France that Hakimi has settled since his move to PSG from Inter in 2021.

Inter needed to make a quick profit after winning the Scudetto in 2021 and chose Hakimi as one of the players to sacrifice. PSG paid an initial €60m to sign the right wing-back.

Hakimi agreed a five-year deal worth €174,808 per week, before joining a flurry of players to extend their contracts in February 2025 and earning a payrise as a result.

The Morocco international is now contracted until 2029 and is earning more than €250,000 per week on his fresh terms. He also has the promise of potentially more than €100,000 per week in bonuses.

With more than 25 goal contributions in 2024-25 alone, the influence he has and value he provides from his position is clear.

6. Warren Zaire-Emery

• Weekly salary: €219,231 / £189,000
• Annual salary: €11.4m / £9.8m
• Contract until: 2029

PSG have gained a reputation in recent years for making huge signings. Their purchases of Neymar and Mbappe in 2017 and 2018 respectively remain the two most expensive signings in football history.

But in Zaire-Emery, they have managed to produce a key player from their own academy who is now flourishing at senior level.

Originally joining their youth ranks as an eight-year-old, Zaire-Emery made his senior debut in August 2022, a month after signing his first professional contract at €4,808 per week (€250,000 per year). He was still 16 at the time.

In April 2024, after turning 18, the midfielder was handed a better contract worth more than 45 times as much as he’d previously been earning.

Zaire-Emery’s new deal, which runs until 2029, is worth €219,231 per week (€11.4m per year).

He has since surpassed 100 appearances for PSG and was named Ligue 1’s Young Player of the Year in 2023-24.

7. Vitinha

• Weekly salary: €209,615 / £181,000
• Annual salary: €10.9m / £9.4m
• Contract until: 2029

PSG signed former Wolves loan player Vitinha from Porto in 2022 and he has since established himself as a key component of their midfield.

Aged 22 when he moved to Paris, Vitinha initially earned €104,808 per week.

But he doubled his money when renewing his contract in February 2025, which was the reward for his rise to prominence.

Indeed, Vitinha was named in the Ligue 1 and Champions League teams of the year for his performances in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.

He came third in the ranking for the 2025 Ballon d’Or as well.

8. Nuno Mendes

• Weekly salary: €192,308 / £166,000
• Annual salary: €10m / £8.6m
• Contract until: 2029

Now regarded as one of the best left-backs in the world, PSG bought into Nuno Mendes’ potential when he was just 19 years old.

When signed from Sporting CP, Mendes was given a €27,692 weekly salary, which he remained on after his loan became permanent.

After being named the Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year for 2022-23, Mendes went on to sign a new contract in Paris in February 2025.

His new deal is worth €192,308 per week, or €10m a year, and will last until 2029.

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9. Bradley Barcola

• Weekly salary: €126,923 / £109,000
• Annual salary: €6.6m / £5.7m
• Contract until: 2028

PSG’s renewed focus on French talent prompted their decision to buy Barcola from Lyon in 2023, a few days before his 21st birthday.

Barcola signed a five-year contract at the Parc des Princes and burst through in the second season of that deal, scoring 21 goals on course to winning Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and the Champions League.

10. Desire Doue

• Weekly salary: €115,385 / £99,000
• Annual salary: €6m / £5.2m
• Contract until: 2029

After two breakout seasons with Rennes, Doue joined PSG as a teenager in 2024, in another sign of their shifting transfer policy.

They showed their faith in the winger with a lucrative contract for five seasons, the first of which he scored 16 goals in (while earning his senior debut for France along the way).

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