New Jersey Devils career earnings
$551,512,101 across 29 careers, led by Dougie Hamilton on $101,125,000.
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 2.1% of the money in the NHL file.
New Jersey Devils at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $551,512,101
- Careers
- 29
- Per career
- $19,017,659
- Paid through 2026-27
- $524,762,101
- Still to be paid
- $26,750,000
- Rank
- 30 of 32 franchises
The New Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils careers
Total contract money, 2006 to 2029
Every New Jersey Devils career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Dougie Hamilton Paid in 2026-27 | Defenseman | 17 | 2011 to 2027 | $5.3m | $101,125,000$101.1m |
| 02 | P.K. Subban | Defenseman | 11 | 2009 to 2021 | - | $73,837,500$73.8m |
| 03 | Jack Hughes Paid in 2026-27 | Center | 11 | 2019 to 2029 | $21.5m | $66,775,000$66.8m |
| 04 | Nico Hischier Paid in 2026-27 | Center | 10 | 2017 to 2026 | - | $53,525,000$53.5m |
| 05 | Tomas Tatar | Left Wing | 10 | 2013 to 2022 | - | $39,100,000$39.1m |
| 06 | Jonathan Bernier | Goaltender | 15 | 2006 to 2022 | - | $36,902,683$36.9m |
| 07 | Brendan Smith | Defenseman | 14 | 2010 to 2023 | - | $31,050,000$31.1m |
| 08 | Damon Severson | Defenseman | 9 | 2014 to 2022 | - | $26,817,500$26.8m |
| 09 | Sami Vatanen | Defenseman | 9 | 2012 to 2020 | - | $25,152,691$25.2m |
| 10 | Andreas Johnsson | Left Wing | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $14,387,500$14.4m |
| 11 | Miles Wood | Left Wing | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $12,623,375$12.6m |
| 12 | Ryan Graves | Defenseman | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $10,525,085$10.5m |
| 13 | MacKenzie Blackwood | Goaltender | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $9,472,100$9.5m |
| 14 | Jesper Bratt | Left Wing | 5 | 2017 to 2021 | - | $7,747,500$7.7m |
| 15 | Nikita Gusev | Left Wing | 3 | 2018 to 2020 | - | $6,925,000$6.9m |
| 16 | Janne Kuokkanen | Center | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $4,899,530$4.9m |
| 17 | Yegor Sharangovich | Center | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $4,768,308$4.8m |
| 18 | Jonas Siegenthaler | Defenseman | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $4,131,440$4.1m |
| 19 | Frederik Gauthier | Center | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $3,844,858$3.8m |
| 20 | Michael Mcleod | Center | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $3,035,677$3.0m |
| 21 | Nathan Bastian | Right Wing | 4 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $2,650,434$2.7m |
| 22 | Ty Smith | Defenseman | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $2,590,000$2.6m |
| 23 | Christian Jaros | Defenseman | 5 | 2017 to 2021 | - | $2,042,334$2.0m |
| 24 | Jesper Boqvist | Center | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $1,969,236$2.0m |
| 25 | Nicholas Meloche | Defenseman | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $1,680,174$1.7m |
| 26 | Tyce Thompson | Right Wing | 2 | 2020 to 2021 | - | $1,121,915 |
| 27 | Nolan Foote | Left Wing | 2 | 2020 to 2021 | - | $1,067,739 |
| 28 | Kevin Bahl | Defenseman | 2 | 2020 to 2021 | - | $983,272 |
| 29 | Brian Pinho | Center | 2 | 2017 to 2020 | - | $761,250 |
New Jersey Devils money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2021-22 is the biggest year on this chart at $63,757,375. 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 New Jersey Devils player?
Dougie Hamilton. His contracts are worth $101,125,000 across 17 seasons from 2011 to 2027.
What have New Jersey Devils players earned in total?
$551,512,101 across 29 careers, an average of $19,017,659 each. That is 2.1% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
New Jersey Devils is 30 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Seattle Kraken on $593,984,601 and ahead of Ottawa Senators on $505,932,371.
How many are still being paid?
3 of the 29 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $26,750,000 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the New Jersey Devils 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.
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