Baseball salaries & payrolls
MLB team payrolls and player salaries, updated from Spotrac.
Biggest payrolls
Total baseball team spend
Highest career earnings
Total earned across every season we hold, converted at $1.33 and €1.17 where the source figure was not in dollars
Sixteen names of 2,957. The full MLB money list ranks every career on this site, and the same money is split by position, by club and by season further down this page.
The career earnings section
Every MLB career on this site counted by what it was paid: 2,957 careers, 14 season payrolls, 13 positions and 30 clubs
MLB has paid £26.04bn to the players on this site between 1996 and 2024, 91.4% of it as base salary. A further £6.50bn is signed for and not yet paid, which is a list of its own: these are guaranteed deals, so the money owed is money the clubs cannot take back.
Highest paid in the MLB
Top 25 of the 1,796 players we hold a figure for
What a player in the MLB actually earns
Across the 1,796 roster rows carrying a figure, of 1,874 in the MLB squad lists
Median $797k · average $3.4m · $6.05bn across the league
Where the money goes
Share of the MLB payroll by position
Rankings & league tables
Every MLB team
30 clubs · sortable
| TEAM | ON A DEAL | PAYROLL | AVERAGE | HIGHEST PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Dodgers | 63 | $349,872,869 | $5,553,538 | Tyler Glasnow $32.5m |
| New York Mets | 74 | $342,395,306 | $4,626,964 | Juan Soto $62.0m |
| New York Yankees | 47 | $314,674,587 | $6,695,204 | Aaron Judge $40.0m |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 54 | $308,660,016 | $5,715,926 | Zack Wheeler $42.0m |
| Toronto Blue Jays | 65 | $306,385,624 | $4,713,625 | Vladimir Guerrero Jr. $40.3m |
| Atlanta Braves | 75 | $302,234,187 | $4,029,789 | Austin Riley $22.0m |
| Chicago Cubs | 70 | $299,734,336 | $4,281,919 | Alex Bregman $35.0m |
| Houston Astros | 59 | $269,778,658 | $4,572,520 | Jose Altuve $33.0m |
| San Diego Padres | 54 | $253,916,409 | $4,702,156 | Robbie Ray $26.0m |
| Boston Red Sox | 59 | $237,171,004 | $4,019,848 | Sonny Gray $31.0m |
| Arizona Diamondbacks | 59 | $235,118,706 | $3,985,063 | Corbin Burnes $30.8m |
| Detroit Tigers | 55 | $210,887,375 | $3,834,316 | Javier Báez $24.0m |
| Texas Rangers | 58 | $205,864,016 | $3,549,380 | Jacob deGrom $38.0m |
| San Francisco Giants | 64 | $205,842,289 | $3,216,286 | Rafael Devers $27.0m |
| Los Angeles Angels | 62 | $192,432,102 | $3,103,744 | Anthony Rendon $38.6m |
| Seattle Mariners | 56 | $187,457,323 | $3,347,452 | Julio Rodriguez $20.2m |
| Baltimore Orioles | 71 | $176,447,386 | $2,485,174 | Pete Alonso $21.0m |
| Milwaukee Brewers | 65 | $173,284,739 | $2,665,919 | Christian Yelich $24.0m |
| Kansas City Royals | 54 | $157,440,275 | $2,915,561 | Seth Lugo $21.5m |
| Minnesota Twins | 58 | $143,768,183 | $2,478,762 | Pablo López $21.8m |
| Cincinnati Reds | 57 | $142,172,806 | $2,494,260 | Jeimer Candelario $15.9m |
| Chicago White Sox | 66 | $135,584,391 | $2,054,309 | Luis Castillo $23.8m |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 57 | $134,447,493 | $2,358,728 | Mitch Keller $16.9m |
| Colorado Rockies | 57 | $124,489,084 | $2,184,019 | Kris Bryant $27.0m |
| Tampa Bay Rays | 56 | $123,269,395 | $2,201,239 | Wander Franco $15.5m |
| Athletics | 62 | $115,162,589 | $1,857,461 | Luis Severino $25.0m |
| Washington Nationals | 63 | $108,899,704 | $1,728,567 | Stephen Strasburg $32.8m |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 49 | $101,072,420 | $2,062,702 | Sonny Gray $20.0m |
| Cleveland Guardians | 54 | $100,133,556 | $1,854,325 | José Ramírez $25.0m |
| Miami Marlins | 53 | $90,310,453 | $1,703,971 | Sandy Alcantara $17.3m |
Every baseball player
3,257 players with a page of their own, A-Z