Cleveland Cavaliers career earnings
$1,141,929,980 across 23 careers, led by Darius Garland on $226,313,765.
Every man on the roster, ranked by what his contracts have been worth across his whole career rather than by what this franchise is paying him now. It comes to 2.6% of the money in the NBA file.
Cleveland Cavaliers at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $1,141,929,980
- Careers
- 23
- Per career
- $49,649,130
- Paid through 2026-27
- $1,097,043,050
- Still to be paid
- $44,886,930
- Rank
- 21 of 30 franchises
The Cleveland Cavaliers squad page carries the current roster and what each man is paid this season. What follows is the other question: what those same men have earned across every season of their careers.
The fifteen richest Cleveland Cavaliers careers
Total contract money, 2004 to 2027
Every Cleveland Cavaliers career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Darius Garland Paid in 2026-27 | Point Guard | 9 | 2019 to 2027 | $44.9m | $226,313,765$226.3m |
| 02 | Donovan Mitchell | Shooting Guard | 9 | 2017 to 2025 | - | $179,022,996$179.0m |
| 03 | Ricky Rubio | Point Guard | 14 | 2011 to 2024 | - | $138,617,934$138.6m |
| 04 | Jarrett Allen | Center | 9 | 2017 to 2025 | - | $109,886,030$109.9m |
| 05 | Caris LeVert | Shooting Guard | 9 | 2016 to 2024 | - | $91,859,171$91.9m |
| 06 | Anderson Varejao | Power Forward | 17 | 2004 to 2020 | - | $88,929,857$88.9m |
| 07 | Max Strus Paid in 2026-27 | Shooting Guard | 7 | 2019 to 2026 | - | $66,197,309$66.2m |
| 08 | Matthew Dellavedova | Point Guard | 8 | 2013 to 2020 | - | $42,457,787$42.5m |
| 09 | Georges Niang | Power Forward | 10 | 2016 to 2025 | - | $37,885,084$37.9m |
| 10 | Evan Mobley | Power Forward | 4 | 2021 to 2024 | - | $36,664,177$36.7m |
| 11 | Isaac Okoro | Shooting Guard | 4 | 2020 to 2023 | - | $29,083,315$29.1m |
| 12 | Dean Wade | Power Forward | 7 | 2019 to 2025 | - | $24,106,283$24.1m |
| 13 | Ty Jerome | Shooting Guard | 6 | 2019 to 2024 | - | $15,992,325$16.0m |
| 14 | Damian Jones | Center | 8 | 2016 to 2023 | - | $14,551,356$14.6m |
| 15 | Dylan Windler | Shooting Guard | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $10,322,481$10.3m |
| 16 | Damyean Dotson | Shooting Guard | 5 | 2017 to 2021 | - | $7,995,605$8.0m |
| 17 | Mfiondu Kabengele | Power Forward | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $7,834,122$7.8m |
| 18 | Sam Merrill | Shooting Guard | 5 | 2020 to 2024 | - | $7,684,044$7.7m |
| 19 | Sheldon McClellan | Shooting Guard | 3 | 2016 to 2019 | - | $1,947,639$1.9m |
| 20 | Matt Mooney | Guard | 1 | 2020 | - | $1,549,812$1.5m |
| 21 | Brodric Thomas | Guard | 1 | 2021 | - | $1,489,068$1.5m |
| 22 | Jeremiah Martin | Guard | 1 | 2021 | - | $1,489,068$1.5m |
| 23 | Sir'Dominic Pointer | Small Forward | 1 | 2019 | - | $50,752 |
Cleveland Cavaliers money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2023-24 is the biggest year on this chart at $161,960,192. A roster assembled recently draws a spike rather than a run: the chart follows the men who are here now, wherever they were paid it.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the highest paid Cleveland Cavaliers player?
Darius Garland. His contracts are worth $226,313,765 across 9 seasons from 2019 to 2027.
What have Cleveland Cavaliers players earned in total?
$1,141,929,980 across 23 careers, an average of $49,649,130 each. That is 2.6% of every dollar in the NBA file.
How does that rank?
Cleveland Cavaliers is 21 of 30 franchises by total career money, behind Boston Celtics on $1,150,724,854 and ahead of Utah Jazz on $1,109,618,586.
How many are still being paid?
2 of the 23 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $44,886,930 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the Cleveland Cavaliers payroll?
No. It is career money carried by the current roster: everything each man's contracts have been worth across every season, at this franchise or anywhere else. A payroll is one season and this is every one of them.
The franchises either side
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