READING · FINANCES

Reading finances and accounts

Q: How much revenue do Reading make?

Reading turned over AU$18.5m in 2024/25.

Q: What is the Reading wage bill?

Reading paid AU$23.5m in staff costs in 2024/25, which is 126.5% of revenue.

Q: Do Reading make a profit?

Reading made a pre-tax loss of AU$7.3m in 2024/25.

Reading turned over AU$18.5m in 2024/25 and paid AU$23.5m in staff costs, which is 126.5% of everything the club earned.

REVENUE AU$18.5m

WAGE BILL AU$23.5m

WAGES TO REVENUE126.5%

PRE-TAX RESULT -AU$7.3m

Reading Football finances League One Highest paid All-time earners

Revenue by season

What Reading turned over in each year we hold accounts for.

$49m

$69m

$34m

$26m

$32m

$19m

Every measure, season by season

Costs are shown as the amount paid. A dash is a measure Reading does not report on its own.

Staff costs and player amortisation sit inside total operating costs rather than on top of them.

MEASURE	2024/25	2023/24	2021/22	2020/21	2019/20	2016/17	2015/16
Revenue	AU$18,532,680AU$18.5m	AU$18,902,926AU$18.9m	AU$31,952,659AU$32m	AU$26,018,061AU$26m	AU$33,581,265AU$33.6m	AU$69,338,126AU$69.3m	AU$48,732,163AU$48.7m
Staff costs	AU$23,450,980AU$23.5m	AU$29,895,939AU$29.9m	AU$47,860,049AU$47.9m	AU$60,875,339AU$60.9m	AU$71,015,431AU$71m	AU$52,720,531AU$52.7m	AU$58,139,012AU$58.1m
Wages and salaries	AU$20,849,053AU$20.8m	AU$26,926,722AU$26.9m	AU$42,376,000AU$42.4m	AU$53,835,000AU$53.8m	AU$62,930,285AU$62.9m	AU$46,664,777AU$46.7m	AU$51,953,089AU$52m
Social security costs	AU$2,362,882AU$2.4m	AU$2,691,557AU$2.7m	-	-	-	AU$5,880,412AU$5.9m	AU$6,003,776AU$6m
Pension costs	AU$239,045AU$239k	AU$277,660AU$278k	-	-	-	AU$175,343AU$175k	AU$182,147AU$182k
Player amortisation	-	-	AU$9,910,774AU$9.9m	AU$15,672,834AU$15.7m	AU$17,403,381AU$17.4m	-	-
Other operating income	-	-	-	-	-	AU$609,750AU$610k	AU$609,750AU$610k
Cost of sales	AU$17,023,890AU$17m	AU$20,234,707AU$20.2m	-	-	-	-	-
Total operating costs	AU$26,588,061AU$26.6m	AU$30,737,246AU$30.7m	-	-	-	AU$85,125,305AU$85.1m	AU$93,752,331AU$93.8m
Profit on player sales	AU$17,970,625AU$18m	AU$7,540,690AU$7.5m	-	-	-	AU$9,933,698AU$9.9m	AU$13,422,073AU$13.4m
Operating result	-AU$7,108,645AU$7.1m	-AU$24,528,337AU$24.5m	-AU$47,906,934AU$47.9m	-AU$68,727,971AU$68.7m	-AU$82,245,667AU$82.2m	-AU$15,177,430AU$15.2m	-AU$44,410,419AU$44.4m
Pre-tax result	-AU$7,337,046AU$7.3m	-AU$24,691,786AU$24.7m	-AU$32,615,641AU$32.6m	-AU$67,391,089AU$67.4m	-AU$79,290,592AU$79.3m	AU$8,809,574AU$8.8m	-AU$28,416,052AU$28.4m
Wages to revenue	126.5%	158.2%	149.8%	234%	211.5%	76%	119.3%

What the wage bill covers

Staff costs are the whole payroll and not just the first team: players, coaching staff, the academy and everyone working at the ground. Reading paid AU$23.5m against AU$18.5m of revenue, so 127p of every pound went back out as pay.

League One revenue

The 13 clubs in the division whose accounts cover the same twelve months. Follow a club for its own finances.

Luton Town $250m Plymouth Argyle $54m Peterborough United $30m Blackpool $21m Barnsley $19m Reading $19m AFC Wimbledon $18m Leyton Orient $18m Cambridge United $17m Bradford City $16m Burton Albion $12m Milton Keynes Dons $10m Bromley $10m

Frequently asked questions

How much revenue do Reading make?

Reading turned over AU$18.5m in 2024/25.

What is the Reading wage bill?

Reading paid AU$23.5m in staff costs in 2024/25, which is 126.5% of revenue.

Do Reading make a profit?

Reading made a pre-tax loss of AU$7.3m in 2024/25.

The accounts behind these figures

Company number 00053703. Every set of accounts read for this page.

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