Highest salaries on Rugby

[Takai]

How much are the highest salaries on rugby?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Think the highest paid rugby player is Johnny Wilkinson, who makes £48,155 per month (around £577,000 per year).

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

1. Jonny Wilkinson (Toulon) - €56 000 per month
2. Jonathan Sexton (Racing Metro) - €52 000
3. Bryan Habana (Toulon) - €50 000
4. Morgan Parra (Clermont Auvergne) - €46 000
5. Thierry Dusautoir (Toulouse) - €43 000
6. Dimitri Szarzewski (Racing Metro) - €41 000
7. Carl Hayman (Toulon) - €41 000
8. Bakkies Botha (Toulon) - €41 000
9. Jamie Roberts (Racing Metro) - €40 000
10. Matt Giteau (Toulon) - €40 000

Salaries are monthly. Top10 earners in the world all play in France

 

[Takai]

Salaries are monthly. Top10 earners in the world all play in France

Aren´t those salaries low, compared to other sports?
Rugby has really good attendance, those players get money from other ways, like number of games played or sponsorship.

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Aren´t those salaries low, compared to other sports?
Rugby has really good attendance, those players get money from other ways, like number of games played or sponsorship.

Take Wilkinson's average and using a nifty site I found http://debt.co.uk/football/wages/

Lionel Messi earns Wilko's annual salary every 13.46 days
To earn Lionel Messi's weekly salary, it would take Wilko 6.24 months

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Aren´t those salaries low, compared to other sports?
Rugby has really good attendance, those players get money from other ways, like number of games played or sponsorship.

Don't forget rugby only turned professional in 1996. Football (Soccer) has been a professional sport for over 50 years now. You cannot compare the two.

 

[yarmolinsky]

Aren´t those salaries low, compared to other sports?
Rugby has really good attendance, those players get money from other ways, like number of games played or sponsorship.

Man, I wish those enormous salaries stayed away from rugby as long as possible. I don't really know how to explain it, but as soon as huge money come to some kind of sport, the athletes participating in it stop to play and start acting like pimps. I remember quite a different football compared to this disgrace of mankind that we're having now. Don't want rugby to be invaded with those glamorous millioners who think about their shampoo advertisements rather than about the game itself.

 

[yarmolinsky]

Salaries are monthly. Top10 earners in the world all play in France

Weird. What about McCaw and Carter?

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Carter, McCaw and Conrad Smith are close to € 30.000 a month. This includes their deal with NZRU so it's not their basic salary they get from their club.

 

[yarmolinsky]

Carter, McCaw and Conrad Smith are close to € 30.000 a month. This includes their deal with NZRU so it's not their basic salary they get from their club.

Huh! And I thought they were the richest guys in rugby)) Starzewski getting more than Carter is... delicious =))

 

[Jaguares]

Aren´t those salaries low, compared to other sports?
Rugby has really good attendance, those players get money from other ways, like number of games played or sponsorship.

People who don't know anything about rugby always makes these questions. What matter if the rugby have lower wages than other sports?

Do you think that athletes from other sports are better than rugby players because they earn more money? Do you think that they train better? Please enter a rugby field and feel the real rigors of the sport, this isn't for everyone.

There must have COURAGE to play this sport:

Cheers

 

[Big Ewis]

can't remember if I've posted such a comment here before but uh...

money money money mohhhhh-nehhh.....


















MAAAAAAAAHHH-NEEEHH !!!!

 

[Jaguares]

can't remember if I've posted such a comment here before but uh...

money money money mohhhhh-nehhh.....

MAAAAAAAAHHH-NEEEHH !!!!

These people don't understand the true values ​​of rugby. In this sport don't need much money to feel it, rugby is a different sport. That's the best sport!!!

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Huh! And I thought they were the richest guys in rugby)) Starzewski getting more than Carter is... delicious =))

It doesn't include sponsorship deals, bonuses etc.