Do footballers actually get paid per week?

[DaveM]

Do footballers actually receive a weekly salary, as quoted often in the media, or do they receive a monthly salary like most normal people?

[Stranded]

Paid monthly - but the figures are so large they are quoted weekly for more impact.

[weybridgewanderer]

60K a week, or quarter of a million a month.....

[Uke]

Paid monthly - but the figures are so large they are quoted weekly for more impact.

Less impact Shirley?

[Stranded]

Paid monthly - but the figures are so large they are quoted weekly for more impact.

Less impact Shirley?

Not sure as £120k a week for example makes it sound more as you can do the he earns X times more in a week than I do.

[Dirk Gently]

Paid monthly - but the figures are so large they are quoted weekly for more impact.

Less impact Shirley?

Not sure as £120k a week for example makes it sound more as you can do the he earns X times more in a week than I do.

But 20k is the sort of money that people can understand so presenting £20k a week seems a lot more palatable than presenting it as over a £million a year.

[Uke]

Paid monthly - but the figures are so large they are quoted weekly for more impact.

Less impact Shirley?

Not sure as £120k a week for example makes it sound more as you can do the he earns X times more in a week than I do.

Quarter a million a month sounds obscene and overpaid, 65k per week sounds less as people don't do the maths and work out how many "hospitals a year" a footie player is paid

[Compo's Hat]

John Arne Riise's pay slip.

[cmonurz]

The numbers are just astronomical. If you earn £70k a year, before tax, you are fairly well off. Riise earned £80k in a month ater tax. Obscene!

[Victor Meldrew]

I think it all goes back to when most workers were paid weekly.
Now that they are miles removed from workers they are deemed to be professionals and get paid monthly.
It mirrors the fact that they can no longer relate to the man (or woman) in the street.

[soggy biscuit]

I blame Jimmy Hill

[Uke]

John Arne Riise's pay slip.

Interestingly that was a weekly slip - week number 24 implying that the footballers can't wait until the end of the month for their salary. Perhaps they just go out and spend it all by the next weekend?

[Arnie_Pie]

LOl at him for getting paid all that money and only buying one mate a ticket and LOL @ Liverpool paying him all that money and then charging him for one ticket,

[Once were Biscuitmen]

The weekly figure is obviously much closer to the yearly salaries of most people so we can more easily relate to these absolute numbers. If anything I think this is done by the media to heighten the outrage rather than play it down.

If the papers said a, "a milllion a year," much of the comparison would be lost and we would be more likely to mentally group foootballers with American sports professionals, pop stars, or successful business men.

We are used to pop stars, city traders etc being millionaires but the fact footballers used to earn weekly/yearly wages in line with rest of us a few decades ago seems to make them targets today.

[cmonurz]

John Arne Riise's pay slip.

Interestingly that was a weekly slip - week number 24 implying that the footballers can't wait until the end of the month for their salary. Perhaps they just go out and spend it all by the next weekend?

At £120k gross, for Riise in 2006, that has to be a monthly pay slip. The week number just refers to the date salary was paid, i.e. in week 24 of the financial year.

[PEARCEY]

The numbers are just astronomical. If you earn £70k a year, before tax, you are fairly well off. Riise earned £80k in a month ater tax. Obscene!

I agree. Market forces and all that but I don't think its right.

[Royal Lady]

They charged him £65 for meals. I'd complain if I were him...

[woodley_royal_124]

yes he probably has a family to look after..........