Cristiano Ronaldo £3,000,000/wk Al-Nassr Football Club Sadio Mané £625,000/wk Al-Nassr Football Club João Félix £580,000/wk Al-Nassr Football Club Kylian Mbappé £497,000/wk Real Madrid Kalidou Koulibaly £497,000/wk Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club Otávio £472,000/wk Al-Qadsiah Football Club Erling Haaland £450,000/wk Manchester City Victor Osimhen £436,000/wk Galatasaray A.Ş. Robert Lewandowski £432,000/wk Chicago Fire FC Jamal Musiala £414,000/wk FC Bayern München Rúben Neves £414,000/wk Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club Kingsley Coman £414,000/wk Al-Nassr Football Club Mohamed Salah £400,000/wk Trabzonspor A.Ş. Harry Kane £381,000/wk FC Bayern München Dušan Vlahovic £369,000/wk Beşiktaş A.Ş. Virgil van Dijk £350,000/wk Liverpool
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Bukayo Saka vs Declan Rice - salary comparison

Bukayo Saka earns £50,000 a week more than Declan Rice£300,000 against £250,000, a difference of £2,600,000 over a year. The two best paid players at Arsenal.

BUKAYO SAKA £300,000
DECLAN RICE £250,000
GAP PER WEEK £50,000
GAP PER YEAR £2.6m

Side by side

Current weekly wage, and where each of them earns it

Bukayo Saka Arsenal · AM RL · age 23
£300,000 per week
Declan Rice Arsenal · DM · age 26
£250,000 per week

Bukayo Saka vs Declan Rice, line by line

The better figure in each row is picked out in gold. A dash is a figure we do not hold.

Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice compared on wage, career earnings, age, position, club, league, nationality and contract expiry.
MEASURE BUKAYO SAKA DECLAN RICE DIFFERENCE
Weekly wage £300,000 £250,000 £50,000
Yearly salary £15,600,000 £13,000,000 £2,600,000
Net worth £64m £65m £1.5m
Seasons we hold a wage for 9 11 2
Age 23 26 3 yr
Position AM RL DM -
Club Arsenal Arsenal team-mates
League Premier League Premier League same league
Nationality England England same
Contract expiry JUN 2031 JUN 2028 1095 days
Net worth is the sum of every season we hold a wage for, not a stated figure.

What the gap buys

The difference between these two, put next to figures the rest of the site holds

Bukayo Saka is paid £50,000 a week more than Declan Rice£2,600,000 over a year.

CLUBS THE GAP OUTSPENDS 404

of the 910 clubs we hold squad wages for pay their whole first team less each week than the gap between these two. The biggest of them is FC Würzburger Kickers, whose 30 players cost £50k a week between them.

WIDEST IT HAS BEEN £50k

a week, in 2026 — the widest the two have been apart in any of the 9 seasons below that they both appear in.

Season by season

Weekly wage in each season both men appear in our data, newest at the bottom. Where they were is beside the figure.

Bukayo Saka Declan Rice
2019
£100 Arsenal
£32k
2020 £27k
2021
£33k Arsenal
£29k
2022
£33k Arsenal
£29k
2023
£53k Arsenal
£9k
2024
£250k Arsenal
£250k Arsenal
-
2025
£250k Arsenal
£250k Arsenal
-
2026
£300k Arsenal
£250k Arsenal
£50k
2027
£300k Arsenal
£250k Arsenal
£50k

Full histories: Bukayo Saka · Declan Rice

Frequently asked questions

Bukayo Saka vs Declan Rice

Who earns more, Bukayo Saka or Declan Rice?

Bukayo Saka earns more. Bukayo Saka is on £300,000 per week against Declan Rice's £250,000, a gap of £50,000 a week.

What is the difference between Bukayo Saka's and Declan Rice's salary?

£50,000 per week, which comes to £2,600,000 over a year. Bukayo Saka is paid 1.2 times what Declan Rice is paid.

How much does Bukayo Saka earn per week?

Bukayo Saka earns £300,000 per week at Arsenal, or £15,600,000 per year.

How much does Declan Rice earn per week?

Declan Rice earns £250,000 per week at Arsenal, or £13,000,000 per year.

Who is older, Bukayo Saka or Declan Rice?

Declan Rice is older, at 26 to 23.

Whose contract runs longer, Bukayo Saka's or Declan Rice's?

Bukayo Saka. Bukayo Saka's deal runs to 30 June 2031, against 30 June 2028 for Declan Rice.

Who has earned more over their career, Bukayo Saka or Declan Rice?

Declan Rice, on the seasons we hold a wage for. Bukayo Saka has earned £63,679,200 across 9 seasons, Declan Rice £65,145,600 across 11 seasons.

How big is the gap between Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice?

£50,000 a week. That is more than the entire first-team wage bill at 404 of the 910 clubs whose squads we hold wages for, the biggest of them FC Würzburger Kickers on £49,986 a week.