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Kylian Mbappé vs N'Golo Kanté - salary comparison

Kylian Mbappé earns £149,000 a week more than N'Golo Kanté£497,000 against £348,000, a difference of £7,748,000 over a year. Both inside the twenty best paid footballers in our data.

KYLIAN MBAPPÉ £497,000
N'GOLO KANTÉ £348,000
GAP PER WEEK £149,000
GAP PER YEAR £7.7m

Side by side

Current weekly wage, and where each of them earns it

Kylian Mbappé Real Madrid · AM RL, ST · age 26
£497,000 per week

Kylian Mbappé vs N'Golo Kanté, line by line

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

Kylian Mbappé and N'Golo Kanté compared on wage, career earnings, age, position, club, league, nationality and contract expiry.
MEASURE KYLIAN MBAPPÉ N'GOLO KANTÉ DIFFERENCE
Weekly wage £497,000 £348,000 £149,000
Yearly salary £25,844,000 £18,096,000 £7,748,000
Net worth £232m £134m £98m
Seasons we hold a wage for 10 10 -
Age 26 34 8 yr
Position AM RL, ST DM -
Club Real Madrid Fenerbahçe A.Ş. -
League La Liga Süper Lig -
Nationality France France same
Contract expiry JUN 2029 JUN 2028 365 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

Kylian Mbappé is paid £149,000 a week more than N'Golo Kanté£7,748,000 over a year.

CLUBS THE GAP OUTSPENDS 650

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 HNK Hajduk Split, whose 74 players cost £148k a week between them.

TIMES THE WAGE 1.4×

what N'Golo Kanté is paid. Put another way, Kylian Mbappé earns N'Golo Kanté's entire week in 4.9 days.

WIDEST IT HAS BEEN £603k

a week, in 2023 — the widest the two have been apart in any of the 11 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.

Kylian Mbappé N'Golo Kanté
2017
£20k AS Monaco
£150k Chelsea
£130k
2018 £158k
2019 £21k
2020 £88k
2021 £113k
2022 £123k
2023 £603k
2024 £465k
2025 £304k
2026 £149k
2027 £149k

Full histories: Kylian Mbappé · N'Golo Kanté

Frequently asked questions

Kylian Mbappé vs N'Golo Kanté

Who earns more, Kylian Mbappé or N'Golo Kanté?

Kylian Mbappé earns more. Kylian Mbappé is on £497,000 per week against N'Golo Kanté's £348,000, a gap of £149,000 a week.

What is the difference between Kylian Mbappé's and N'Golo Kanté's salary?

£149,000 per week, which comes to £7,748,000 over a year. Kylian Mbappé is paid 1.4 times what N'Golo Kanté is paid.

How much does Kylian Mbappé earn per week?

Kylian Mbappé earns £497,000 per week at Real Madrid, or £25,844,000 per year.

How much does N'Golo Kanté earn per week?

N'Golo Kanté earns £348,000 per week at Fenerbahçe A.Ş., or £18,096,000 per year.

Who is older, Kylian Mbappé or N'Golo Kanté?

N'Golo Kanté is older, at 34 to 26.

Whose contract runs longer, Kylian Mbappé's or N'Golo Kanté's?

Kylian Mbappé. Kylian Mbappé's deal runs to 30 June 2029, against 30 June 2028 for N'Golo Kanté.

Who has earned more over their career, Kylian Mbappé or N'Golo Kanté?

Kylian Mbappé, on the seasons we hold a wage for. Kylian Mbappé has earned £232,024,000 across 10 seasons, N'Golo Kanté £133,536,000 across 10 seasons.

How big is the gap between Kylian Mbappé and N'Golo Kanté?

£149,000 a week. That is more than the entire first-team wage bill at 650 of the 910 clubs whose squads we hold wages for, the biggest of them HNK Hajduk Split on £148,405 a week.

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