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Reading finances and accounts

Q: How much revenue do Reading make?

Reading turned over AU$18.8m in 2024/25.

Q: What is the Reading wage bill?

Reading paid AU$23.8m 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$7.5m in 2024/25.

Reading turned over AU$18.8m in 2024/25 and paid AU$23.8m in staff costs, which is 126.5% of everything the club earned.

REVENUE AU$18.8m

WAGE BILL AU$23.8m

WAGES TO REVENUE126.5%

PRE-TAX RESULT -AU$7.5m

Reading Football finances League One Highest paid All-time earners

Revenue by season

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

$50m

$70m

$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$18,826,850AU$18.8m	AU$19,202,972AU$19.2m	AU$32,459,844AU$32.5m	AU$26,431,046AU$26.4m	AU$34,114,301AU$34.1m	AU$70,438,731AU$70.4m	AU$49,505,689AU$49.5m
Staff costs	AU$23,823,218AU$23.8m	AU$30,370,477AU$30.4m	AU$48,619,732AU$48.6m	AU$61,841,614AU$61.8m	AU$72,142,660AU$72.1m	AU$53,557,365AU$53.6m	AU$59,061,853AU$59.1m
Wages and salaries	AU$21,179,990AU$21.2m	AU$27,354,131AU$27.4m	AU$43,048,635AU$43m	AU$54,689,524AU$54.7m	AU$63,929,178AU$63.9m	AU$47,405,487AU$47.4m	AU$52,777,741AU$52.8m
Social security costs	AU$2,400,388AU$2.4m	AU$2,734,280AU$2.7m	-	-	-	AU$5,973,752AU$6m	AU$6,099,074AU$6.1m
Pension costs	AU$242,840AU$243k	AU$282,067AU$282k	-	-	-	AU$178,126AU$178k	AU$185,038AU$185k
Player amortisation	-	-	AU$10,068,088AU$10.1m	AU$15,921,610AU$15.9m	AU$17,679,625AU$17.7m	-	-
Other operating income	-	-	-	-	-	AU$619,428AU$619k	AU$619,428AU$619k
Cost of sales	AU$17,294,110AU$17.3m	AU$20,555,892AU$20.6m	-	-	-	-	-
Total operating costs	AU$27,010,093AU$27m	AU$31,225,139AU$31.2m	-	-	-	AU$86,476,500AU$86.5m	AU$95,240,463AU$95.2m
Profit on player sales	AU$18,255,873AU$18.3m	AU$7,660,383AU$7.7m	-	-	-	AU$10,091,376AU$10.1m	AU$13,635,122AU$13.6m
Operating result	-AU$7,221,481AU$7.2m	-AU$24,917,676AU$24.9m	-AU$48,667,361AU$48.7m	-AU$69,818,892AU$69.8m	-AU$83,551,154AU$83.6m	-AU$15,418,341AU$15.4m	-AU$45,115,346AU$45.1m
Pre-tax result	-AU$7,453,507AU$7.5m	-AU$25,083,719AU$25.1m	-AU$33,133,350AU$33.1m	-AU$68,460,789AU$68.5m	-AU$80,549,172AU$80.5m	AU$8,949,408AU$8.9m	-AU$28,867,100AU$28.9m
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$23.8m against AU$18.8m 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 $254m Plymouth Argyle $55m Peterborough United $31m Blackpool $21m Barnsley $20m Reading $19m AFC Wimbledon $19m Leyton Orient $18m Cambridge United $18m Bradford City $17m Burton Albion $12m Milton Keynes Dons $11m Bromley $10m

Frequently asked questions

How much revenue do Reading make?

Reading turned over AU$18.8m in 2024/25.

What is the Reading wage bill?

Reading paid AU$23.8m 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$7.5m in 2024/25.

The accounts behind these figures

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

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