Toronto Maple Leafs career earnings
$836,458,686 across 31 careers, led by John Tavares on $111,041,463.
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 3.2% of the money in the NHL file.
Toronto Maple Leafs at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $836,458,686
- Careers
- 31
- Per career
- $26,982,538
- Paid through 2026-27
- $818,458,686
- Still to be paid
- $18,000,000
- Rank
- 15 of 32 franchises
The Toronto Maple Leafs 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 Toronto Maple Leafs careers
Total contract money, 2002 to 2029
Every Toronto Maple Leafs career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | John Tavares | Center | 16 | 2009 to 2024 | - | $111,041,463$111.0m |
| 02 | Morgan Rielly Paid in 2026-27 | Defenseman | 17 | 2013 to 2029 | $18.0m | $92,895,000$92.9m |
| 03 | Jason Spezza | Center | 19 | 2002 to 2021 | - | $89,519,259$89.5m |
| 04 | Mitchell Marner | Right Wing | 8 | 2016 to 2024 | - | $67,420,500$67.4m |
| 05 | Mark Giordano | Defenseman | 16 | 2008 to 2023 | - | $64,875,000$64.9m |
| 06 | Auston Matthews | Center | 8 | 2016 to 2023 | - | $60,945,000$60.9m |
| 07 | T.J. Brodie | Defenseman | 15 | 2009 to 2023 | - | $49,275,000$49.3m |
| 08 | Jacob Muzzin | Defenseman | 14 | 2009 to 2023 | - | $45,658,049$45.7m |
| 09 | David Clarkson | Right Wing | 12 | 2008 to 2019 | - | $45,181,098$45.2m |
| 10 | William Nylander | Center | 9 | 2015 to 2023 | - | $44,486,280$44.5m |
| 11 | Matthew Murray | Goaltender | 9 | 2015 to 2023 | - | $37,467,500$37.5m |
| 12 | Wayne Simmonds | Right Wing | 15 | 2008 to 2022 | - | $36,490,732$36.5m |
| 13 | Alexander Kerfoot | Center | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $15,850,000$15.8m |
| 14 | Kyle Clifford | Center | 15 | 2009 to 2023 | - | $15,613,049$15.6m |
| 15 | Justin Holl | Defenseman | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $7,363,980$7.4m |
| 16 | David Kampf | Center | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $6,476,042$6.5m |
| 17 | Ilya Samsonov | Goaltender | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $5,623,260$5.6m |
| 18 | Martin Marincin | Defenseman | 6 | 2015 to 2020 | - | $5,163,899$5.2m |
| 19 | Alex Biega | Defenseman | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $4,846,607$4.8m |
| 20 | Timothy Liljegren | Defenseman | 5 | 2019 to 2023 | - | $4,358,012$4.4m |
| 21 | Adam Gaudette | Center | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $3,546,916$3.5m |
| 22 | Pierre Engvall | Left Wing | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $3,210,188$3.2m |
| 23 | Kenneth Agostino | Left Wing | 7 | 2013 to 2020 | - | $2,990,034$3.0m |
| 24 | Dryden Hunt | Left Wing | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $2,917,571$2.9m |
| 25 | Conor Timmins | Defenseman | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $2,464,485$2.5m |
| 26 | Michael Bunting | Left Wing | 4 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $2,281,744$2.3m |
| 27 | Rasmus Sandin | Defenseman | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $2,275,220$2.3m |
| 28 | Joseph Anderson | Right Wing | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $2,234,904$2.2m |
| 29 | Nicholas Robertson | Left Wing | 4 | 2020 to 2023 | - | $2,178,630$2.2m |
| 30 | Joseph Woll | Goaltender | 3 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $1,026,264 |
| 31 | Mac Hollowell | Defenseman | 1 | 2020 | - | $783,000 |
Toronto Maple Leafs money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2019-20 is the biggest year on this chart at $104,920,764. 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 Toronto Maple Leafs player?
John Tavares. His contracts are worth $111,041,463 across 16 seasons from 2009 to 2024.
What have Toronto Maple Leafs players earned in total?
$836,458,686 across 31 careers, an average of $26,982,538 each. That is 3.2% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
Toronto Maple Leafs is 15 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Pittsburgh Penguins on $843,138,145 and ahead of Arizona Coyotes on $818,990,779.
How many are still being paid?
1 of the 31 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $18,000,000 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the Toronto Maple Leafs 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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