2022-23 NBA salaries
$4,650,441,316 paid to 490 players, Stephen Curry the biggest at $48,070,014.
Every man the league paid that season, ranked by what the contract paid him for it. Ten of them took 9.6% of the total.
The 2022-23 season at a glance
What the league paid, and how it split
- Paid out
- $4,650,441,316
- Players paid
- 490
- Average
- $9,490,697
- Basic salary
- 99.4%
- Signing bonus
- 0.0%
- Top ten hold
- 9.6%
2021-22 paid $4,247,569,845 to 557 players, so 2022-23 is up 9.5% on the season before it.
The fifteen biggest 2022-23 salaries
One season, not a career
Every NBA salary in 2022-23
Ranked by what the season paid
The career column is everything the same man's contracts are worth across every season he has been paid, which is the ranking the all-time list is built on.
2022-23 against every other season
What the league paid out, year by year
Frequently asked questions
Who was the highest paid NBA player in 2022-23?
Stephen Curry, $48,070,014 at the Golden State Warriors. That is 1.0% of everything the league paid that season.
How much did NBA players earn in total in 2022-23?
$4,650,441,316 across 490 players, an average of $9,490,697 each.
How many NBA players earned $1 million in 2022-23?
472 of the 490 paid that season.
How does 2022-23 compare with 2021-22?
2021-22 paid $4,247,569,845 across 557 players. 2022-23 is up 9.5% on it.
What is in a NBA salary figure?
Everything the contract pays in that season: basic salary, the share of a signing bonus the deal books to the year, incentives and a trade bonus where one applies. It is not a cap hit and it is not a net figure after tax or escrow.
The seasons either side
The same table, 16 other years
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