Columbus Blue Jackets career earnings
$741,111,602 across 35 careers, led by Johnny Gaudreau on $112,375,000.
Every man on the roster, ranked by what his contracts have been worth across his whole career rather than by what this franchise is paying him now. It comes to 2.8% of the money in the NHL file.
Columbus Blue Jackets at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $741,111,602
- Careers
- 35
- Per career
- $21,174,617
- Paid through 2026-27
- $714,361,602
- Still to be paid
- $26,750,000
- Rank
- 22 of 32 franchises
The Columbus Blue Jackets squad page carries the current roster and what each man is paid this season. What follows is the other question: what those same men have earned across every season of their careers.
The fifteen richest Columbus Blue Jackets careers
Total contract money, 2003 to 2028
Every Columbus Blue Jackets career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Johnny Gaudreau Paid in 2026-27 | Left Wing | 16 | 2013 to 2028 | $19.5m | $112,375,000$112.4m |
| 02 | Jakub Voracek | Right Wing | 17 | 2007 to 2023 | - | $86,112,805$86.1m |
| 03 | Zachary Werenski Paid in 2026-27 | Defenseman | 12 | 2016 to 2027 | $7.2m | $75,275,000$75.3m |
| 04 | Nathan Horton | Right Wing | 15 | 2003 to 2019 | - | $58,401,912$58.4m |
| 05 | Brandon Dubinsky | Center | 15 | 2006 to 2020 | - | $57,500,000$57.5m |
| 06 | Cameron Atkinson | Right Wing | 14 | 2011 to 2024 | - | $55,215,244$55.2m |
| 07 | Elvis Merzlikins Paid in 2026-27 | Goaltender | 9 | 2018 to 2026 | - | $35,954,693$36.0m |
| 08 | Oliver Bjorkstrand | Right Wing | 11 | 2015 to 2025 | - | $35,465,607$35.5m |
| 09 | Gustav Nyquist | Right Wing | 8 | 2013 to 2022 | - | $34,400,000$34.4m |
| 10 | Boone Jenner | Center | 12 | 2012 to 2025 | - | $32,550,500$32.6m |
| 11 | Patrik Laine | Right Wing | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $23,775,000$23.8m |
| 12 | Jack Roslovic | Center | 8 | 2016 to 2023 | - | $14,997,927$15.0m |
| 13 | Sean Kuraly | Center | 9 | 2016 to 2024 | - | $14,842,500$14.8m |
| 14 | Nathan Gerbe | Left Wing | 12 | 2008 to 2021 | - | $11,150,095$11.2m |
| 15 | Joonas Korpisalo | Goaltender | 8 | 2015 to 2022 | - | $10,585,314$10.6m |
| 16 | Adam Boqvist | Defenseman | 6 | 2019 to 2024 | - | $10,256,067$10.3m |
| 17 | Vladislav Gavrikov | Defenseman | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $10,250,000$10.2m |
| 18 | Jake Bean | Defenseman | 5 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $7,504,218$7.5m |
| 19 | Scott Harrington | Defenseman | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $6,882,500$6.9m |
| 20 | Gabriel Carlsson | Defenseman | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $6,349,552$6.3m |
| 21 | Eric Robinson | Left Wing | 6 | 2018 to 2023 | - | $6,224,116$6.2m |
| 22 | Dean Kukan | Defenseman | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $6,022,600$6.0m |
| 23 | Alexandre Texier | Center | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $4,993,419$5.0m |
| 24 | Zac Rinaldo | Left Wing | 10 | 2009 to 2020 | - | $4,886,951$4.9m |
| 25 | Mikhail Grigorenko | Center | 5 | 2012 to 2020 | - | $4,354,476$4.4m |
| 26 | Emil Bemstrom | Center | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $3,295,750$3.3m |
| 27 | Andrew Peeke | Defenseman | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $2,632,905$2.6m |
| 28 | Gavin Bayreuther | Defenseman | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $1,829,116$1.8m |
| 29 | Matiss Kivlenieks | Goaltender | 3 | 2017 to 2020 | - | $1,442,907$1.4m |
| 30 | Mathieu Olivier | Right Wing | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $1,433,276$1.4m |
| 31 | Liam Foudy | Center | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $1,315,307 |
| 32 | Joshua Dunne | Center | 2 | 2020 to 2021 | - | $1,096,447 |
| 33 | Veini Vehvilainen | Goaltender | 2 | 2019 to 2020 | - | $1,021,976 |
| 34 | Mikko Lehtonen | Defenseman | 1 | 2020 | - | $659,483 |
| 35 | Cam Johnson | Goaltender | 2 | 2018 to 2020 | - | $58,939 |
Columbus Blue Jackets money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2021-22 is the biggest year on this chart at $77,460,579. A roster assembled recently draws a spike rather than a run: the chart follows the men who are here now, wherever they were paid it.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the highest paid Columbus Blue Jackets player?
Johnny Gaudreau. His contracts are worth $112,375,000 across 16 seasons from 2013 to 2028.
What have Columbus Blue Jackets players earned in total?
$741,111,602 across 35 careers, an average of $21,174,617 each. That is 2.8% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
Columbus Blue Jackets is 22 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind San Jose Sharks on $747,148,364 and ahead of Vancouver Canucks on $737,489,941.
How many are still being paid?
3 of the 35 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $26,750,000 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the Columbus Blue Jackets payroll?
No. It is career money carried by the current roster: everything each man's contracts have been worth across every season, at this franchise or anywhere else. A payroll is one season and this is every one of them.
The franchises either side
The same table, 16 other franchises
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