MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER · TOP 100
Highest paid Major League Soccer players Robert Lewandowski leads on $574,560 per week. These 100 players take $6,731,130 a week between them - 60% of the league's entire payroll. We hold a salary for 750 of the 754 players in Major League Soccer.
TOP 100 WEEKLY $6.7m
SHARE OF LEAGUE BILL 60%
MEDIAN AGE 28
MOST IN THE LIST 8 Inter Miami CF
Where the top 100 play Combined weekly salaries of each club's players in this list
What each age band takes Combined weekly salaries of the top 100 by age
Under 23 2 $72k
23-26 30 $1.4m
27-30 41 $2m
Over 30 27 $3.3m
The shape of the top 100 Weekly salary by rank #1 $575k #10 $145k #100 $23k
Robert Lewandowski earns 4 × what the tenth best paid player in the list does, and 25 × the 100th. Half of the $6.7m a week on this page goes to the first 18 players on it.
The top 100 Tap a column heading to re-rank # PLAYER WEEKLY YEARLY TEAM NATION AGE POSITION 01 Robert Lewandowski $574,560
$29,877,120 Chicago Fire FC Poland 36 ST 02 Casemiro $399,000
$20,748,000 Inter Miami CF Brazil 33 DM 03 Antoine Griezmann $308,560
$16,045,120 Orlando City SC France 34 AM RLC, F C 04 Lionel Messi $295,260
$15,353,520 Inter Miami CF Argentina 38 AM RC, F C 05 Rodrigo De Paul $226,100
$11,757,200 Inter Miami CF Argentina 31 AM RC 06 Heung-Min Son $211,470
$10,996,440 Los Angeles Football Club South Korea 33 AM L, ST 07 Sergio Busquets $166,250
$8,645,000 Inter Miami CF Spain 36 DM 08 Miguel Almirón $148,960
$7,745,920 Atlanta United FC Paraguay 31 AM RLC 09 Tadeo Allende $147,630
$7,676,760 Inter Miami CF Argentina 26 AM RL, ST 10 Hirving Lozano $144,970
$7,538,440 LA Galaxy Mexico 29 AM RL, ST
11 Emil Forsberg $117,040
$6,086,080 New York Red Bulls Sweden 33 AM RLC 12 Jordi Alba $113,050
$5,878,600 Inter Miami CF Spain 36 D/WB L 13 Riqui Puig $106,400
$5,532,800 LA Galaxy Spain 25 AM C 14 Jonathan Bamba $105,070
$5,463,640 Chicago Fire FC Côte d’Ivoire 29 AM RL 15 Hany Mukhtar $102,410
$5,325,320 Nashville SC Sudan 30 AM LC, F C 16 Alexey Miranchuk $97,090
$5,048,680 Atlanta United FC Russia 29 AM RC, F C 17 Christian Benteke $95,760
$4,979,520 D.C. United Belgium 34 ST 18 Timo Werner $94,430
$4,910,360 San Jose Earthquakes Germany 29 AM L, ST 19 Jack Harrison $93,100
$4,841,200 New England Revolution England 28 AM RLC 20 Evander $91,770
$4,772,040 FC Cincinnati Brazil 27 DM, AM C 21 Carles Gil $91,770
$4,772,040 New England Revolution Spain 32 AM RLC, F C 22 Joseph Paintsil $79,800
$4,149,600 LA Galaxy Ghana 27 AM RL 23 Denis Bouanga $73,150
$3,803,800 Los Angeles Football Club Gabon 30 AM RL, ST 24 Brandon Vázquez $71,820
$3,734,640 Austin FC United States 26 AM R, ST 25 Kévin Denkey $71,820
$3,734,640 FC Cincinnati Togo 24 ST 26 Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting $69,160
$3,596,320 New York Red Bulls Cameroon 36 AM RLC, F C 27 Germán Berterame $67,830
$3,527,160 Inter Miami CF Mexico 26 ST 28 Nicolás Fernández Mercau $67,830
$3,527,160 New York City FC Argentina 25 D/WB L, AM LC 29 David Pereira Da Costa $67,830
$3,527,160 Portland Timbers Portugal 24 AM LC 30 Ryan Gauld $66,500
$3,458,000 Vancouver Whitecaps FC Scotland 29 AM LC 31 Dejan Joveljic $65,170
$3,388,840 Seattle Sounders FC Serbia 25 ST 32 Brais Méndez $58,520
$3,043,040 Columbus Crew Spain 28 AM RC 33 Sam Surridge $57,190
$2,973,880 Nashville SC England 26 ST 34 Kristoffer Velde $57,190
$2,973,880 Portland Timbers Norway 25 AM L 35 Vincent Janssen $53,200
$2,766,400 Portland Timbers Netherlands 31 ST 36 Albert Rusnák $53,200
$2,766,400 Seattle Sounders FC Slovakia 31 AM LC 37 Dániel Gazdag $51,870
$2,697,240 New England Revolution Hungary 29 AM/F C 38 Anders Dreyer $50,540
$2,628,080 San Diego Football Club Denmark 27 AM R 39 Petar Musa $49,210
$2,558,920 FC Dallas Croatia 27 ST 40 Liel Abada $47,880
$2,489,760 Charlotte Football Club Israel 23 AM RL, ST
41 Kyogo Furuhashi $46,550
$2,420,600 LA Galaxy Japan 30 ST 42 Sergi Roberto $46,550
$2,420,600 LA Galaxy Spain 33 D/WB R, DM 43 Thomas Müller $45,220
$2,351,440 Vancouver Whitecaps FC Germany 35 AM RC, F C 44 Jordan Morris $42,560
$2,213,120 Seattle Sounders FC United States 30 AM RL, ST 45 Myrto Uzuni $41,230
$2,143,960 Austin FC Albania 30 AM RLC, F C 46 Paxten Aaronson $41,230
$2,143,960 Colorado Rapids United States 21 AM RLC 47 Cristian Espinoza $41,230
$2,143,960 Nashville SC Argentina 30 AM RL 48 Breel Embolo $38,570
$2,005,640 Atlanta United FC Switzerland 28 AM RC, F C 49 Andreas Hanche-Olsen $37,240
$1,936,480 Chicago Fire FC Norway 28 D RC 50 Thiago Martins $37,240
$1,936,480 New York City FC Brazil 30 D C 51 Angus Gunn $37,240
$1,936,480 San Jose Earthquakes Scotland 29 GK 52 Wessam Abou Ali $35,910
$1,867,320 Columbus Crew Palestine 26 ST 53 Djordje Mihailović $35,910
$1,867,320 Toronto FC United States 26 AM LC 54 Cristian Roldán $34,580
$1,798,160 Seattle Sounders FC United States 30 DM, M RC 55 Jesus Ferreira $34,580
$1,798,160 Seattle Sounders FC United States 24 AM RLC, F C 56 Facundo Torres $31,920
$1,659,840 Austin FC Uruguay 25 AM RLC 57 Marcus Ingvartsen $31,920
$1,659,840 San Diego Football Club Denmark 29 AM RC, F C 58 Armindo Sieb $30,590
$1,590,680 Los Angeles Football Club Germany 22 AM RLC, F C 59 André Luiz $30,590
$1,590,680 Sporting Kansas City Brazil 23 AM RL 60 Enea Mihaj $29,260
$1,521,520 Atlanta United FC Albania 27 D C 61 Junior Alonso $29,260
$1,521,520 Atlanta United FC Paraguay 32 D LC 62 Luca De La Torre $29,260
$1,521,520 Charlotte Football Club United States 27 AM RLC 63 Philip Zinckernagel $29,260
$1,521,520 Chicago Fire FC Denmark 30 AM RLC 64 Robin Lod $29,260
$1,521,520 Chicago Fire FC Finland 32 AM RLC, F C 65 Miles Robinson $29,260
$1,521,520 FC Cincinnati United States 28 D C 66 Elias Saad $29,260
$1,521,520 Nashville SC Tunisia 25 AM RLC 67 Hannes Wolf $29,260
$1,521,520 New York City FC Austria 26 AM RLC 68 Daryl Dike $29,260
$1,521,520 Orlando City SC United States 25 ST 69 Marco Pašalić $29,260
$1,521,520 Orlando City SC Croatia 24 AM RL 70 Eduard Löwen $29,260
$1,521,520 San Jose Earthquakes Germany 28 DM
71 Roman Bürki $29,260
$1,521,520 St. Louis CITY SC Switzerland 34 GK 72 Josh Sargent $29,260
$1,521,520 Toronto FC United States 25 ST 73 Pep Biel $27,930
$1,452,360 Charlotte Football Club Spain 28 AM RC, F C 74 Matt Miazga $27,930
$1,452,360 FC Cincinnati United States 29 D C 75 Luis Suárez $27,930
$1,452,360 Inter Miami CF Uruguay 38 ST 76 Kelvin Yeboah $27,930
$1,452,360 Minnesota United FC Italy 25 AM L, ST 77 Lewis Morgan $27,930
$1,452,360 San Diego Football Club Scotland 28 AM RLC, F C 78 Cedric Teuchert $27,930
$1,452,360 St. Louis CITY SC Germany 28 AM/F C 79 Dániel Sallói $27,930
$1,452,360 Toronto FC Hungary 28 AM RL, ST 80 João Klauss (João Klauss de Mello) $26,600
$1,383,200 LA Galaxy Brazil 28 ST 81 Leonardo Campana $26,600
$1,383,200 New England Revolution Ecuador 24 ST 82 Kai Wagner $26,600
$1,383,200 Philadelphia Union Germany 28 D/WB/M L 83 Andre Blake $26,600
$1,383,200 Philadelphia Union Jamaica 34 GK 84 Steven Alzate $25,270
$1,314,040 Atlanta United FC Colombia 26 DM 85 Rafael Navarro $25,270
$1,314,040 Colorado Rapids Brazil 25 ST 86 Louis Munteanu $25,270
$1,314,040 D.C. United Romania 23 ST 87 Bongokuhle Hlongwane $25,270
$1,314,040 Minnesota United FC South Africa 25 AM RL, ST 88 James Sands $25,270
$1,314,040 New York City FC United States 25 D C, DM 89 Justen Glad $25,270
$1,314,040 Real Salt Lake United States 28 D C 90 Pedro De La Vega $25,270
$1,314,040 Seattle Sounders FC Argentina 24 AM RLC 91 Niklas Dorsch $25,270
$1,314,040 Toronto FC Germany 27 DM 92 Andrés Cubas $25,270
$1,314,040 Vancouver Whitecaps FC Paraguay 29 DM 93 André Gomes $23,940
$1,244,880 Columbus Crew Portugal 31 M C 94 Mateusz Bogusz $23,940
$1,244,880 Houston Dynamo FC Poland 23 AM RC, F C 95 Jakob Glesnes $23,940
$1,244,880 LA Galaxy Norway 31 D C 96 Aaron Long $23,940
$1,244,880 Los Angeles Football Club United States 32 D C 97 Alexander Hack $23,940
$1,244,880 New York Red Bulls Germany 31 D C 98 Morgan Guilavogui $23,940
$1,244,880 Real Salt Lake Guinea 27 AM RL, ST 99 Walker Zimmerman $23,940
$1,244,880 Toronto FC United States 32 D C 100 Obinna Nwobodo $22,610
$1,175,720 FC Cincinnati Nigeria 28 DM
Frequently asked questions Who is the highest paid player in Major League Soccer? Robert Lewandowski of Chicago Fire FC, on $574,560 per week — $29,877,120 a year.
How much do the top 100 Major League Soccer players earn between them? $6,731,130 per week and $350,018,760 per year, which is 60% of the entire Major League Soccer payroll.
Which Major League Soccer club has the most players in the top 100? Inter Miami CF, with 8 of them, paying $1,443,050 a week across those players.
What does it take to make the top 100? $22,610 per week — that is what Obinna Nwobodo earns in 100th place.
