Vegas Golden Knights career earnings
$715,750,506 across 29 careers, led by Alex Pietrangelo on $109,550,000.
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 2.7% of the money in the NHL file.
Vegas Golden Knights at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $715,750,506
- Careers
- 29
- Per career
- $24,681,052
- Paid through 2026-27
- $713,250,506
- Still to be paid
- $2,500,000
- Rank
- 25 of 32 franchises
The Vegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights careers
Total contract money, 2008 to 2027
Every Vegas Golden Knights career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Alex Pietrangelo Paid in 2026-27 | Defenseman | 17 | 2010 to 2026 | - | $109,550,000$109.6m |
| 02 | Mark Stone Paid in 2026-27 | Right Wing | 14 | 2013 to 2026 | - | $95,200,000$95.2m |
| 03 | Jack Eichel | Center | 11 | 2015 to 2025 | - | $82,987,500$83.0m |
| 04 | William Karlsson Paid in 2026-27 | Center | 13 | 2014 to 2026 | - | $55,653,494$55.7m |
| 05 | Alec Martinez | Defenseman | 16 | 2008 to 2023 | - | $45,031,707$45.0m |
| 06 | Robin Lehner | Goaltender | 13 | 2010 to 2024 | - | $43,075,000$43.1m |
| 07 | Shea Theodore | Defenseman | 11 | 2014 to 2024 | - | $39,230,664$39.2m |
| 08 | Reilly Smith | Right Wing | 9 | 2013 to 2021 | - | $34,150,000$34.2m |
| 09 | Jonathan Marchessault | Center | 9 | 2015 to 2023 | - | $32,100,000$32.1m |
| 10 | Evgeni Dadonov | Left Wing | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $27,000,000$27.0m |
| 11 | Brayden McNabb | Defenseman | 12 | 2013 to 2024 | - | $23,415,000$23.4m |
| 12 | Zach Whitecloud Paid in 2026-27 | Defenseman | 9 | 2019 to 2027 | $2.5m | $18,875,000$18.9m |
| 13 | Sven Baertschi | Left Wing | 9 | 2013 to 2021 | - | $15,806,099$15.8m |
| 14 | Chandler Stephenson | Center | 8 | 2016 to 2023 | - | $14,208,665$14.2m |
| 15 | Ben Hutton | Defenseman | 9 | 2015 to 2023 | - | $12,200,000$12.2m |
| 16 | Mattias Janmark | Center | 7 | 2015 to 2021 | - | $11,017,500$11.0m |
| 17 | Laurent Brossoit | Goaltender | 8 | 2015 to 2022 | - | $9,342,145$9.3m |
| 18 | William Carrier | Left Wing | 11 | 2013 to 2023 | - | $9,300,000$9.3m |
| 19 | Nolan Patrick | Center | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $6,049,125$6.0m |
| 20 | Michael Hutchinson | Goaltender | 9 | 2013 to 2021 | - | $5,821,906$5.8m |
| 21 | Tomas Jurco | Right Wing | 7 | 2013 to 2020 | - | $5,283,891$5.3m |
| 22 | Brett Howden | Center | 5 | 2018 to 2022 | - | $4,699,020$4.7m |
| 23 | Michael Amadio | Center | 7 | 2017 to 2023 | - | $4,443,978$4.4m |
| 24 | Logan Thompson | Goaltender | 5 | 2020 to 2024 | - | $3,171,767$3.2m |
| 25 | Byron Froese | Center | 6 | 2015 to 2023 | - | $2,666,236$2.7m |
| 26 | Nicolas Roy | Center | 5 | 2017 to 2021 | - | $2,270,565$2.3m |
| 27 | Nicolas Hague | Defenseman | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $1,490,008$1.5m |
| 28 | Keegan Kolesar | Right Wing | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $1,461,532$1.5m |
| 29 | Sheldon Rempal | Right Wing | 3 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $249,704 |
Vegas Golden Knights money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2019-20 is the biggest year on this chart at $82,956,294. 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 Vegas Golden Knights player?
Alex Pietrangelo. His contracts are worth $109,550,000 across 17 seasons from 2010 to 2026.
What have Vegas Golden Knights players earned in total?
$715,750,506 across 29 careers, an average of $24,681,052 each. That is 2.7% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
Vegas Golden Knights is 25 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Florida Panthers on $736,026,946 and ahead of Minnesota Wild on $695,248,875.
How many are still being paid?
4 of the 29 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $2,500,000 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the Vegas Golden Knights 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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