Winnipeg Jets career earnings
$488,455,069 across 24 careers, led by Blake Wheeler on $82,801,220.
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 1.8% of the money in the NHL file.
Winnipeg Jets at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $488,455,069
- Careers
- 24
- Per career
- $20,352,295
- Paid through 2026-27
- $483,655,069
- Still to be paid
- $4,800,000
- Rank
- 32 of 32 franchises
The Winnipeg Jets 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 Winnipeg Jets careers
Total contract money, 2008 to 2027
Every Winnipeg Jets career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Blake Wheeler | Right Wing | 16 | 2008 to 2023 | - | $82,801,220$82.8m |
| 02 | Joshua Morrissey Paid in 2026-27 | Defenseman | 13 | 2015 to 2027 | $4.8m | $58,890,000$58.9m |
| 03 | Kyle Connor | Left Wing | 10 | 2016 to 2025 | - | $52,775,000$52.8m |
| 04 | Mark Scheifele | Center | 12 | 2011 to 2023 | - | $52,107,500$52.1m |
| 05 | Nikolaj Ehlers | Left Wing | 8 | 2014 to 2024 | - | $42,092,500$42.1m |
| 06 | Connor Hellebuyck | Goaltender | 9 | 2014 to 2023 | - | $40,297,177$40.3m |
| 07 | Brenden Dillon | Defenseman | 13 | 2011 to 2023 | - | $34,973,901$35.0m |
| 08 | Neal Pionk | Defenseman | 8 | 2017 to 2024 | - | $30,784,612$30.8m |
| 09 | Adam Lowry | Left Wing | 12 | 2014 to 2025 | - | $29,042,500$29.0m |
| 10 | Dylan Demelo | Defenseman | 9 | 2015 to 2023 | - | $15,725,000$15.7m |
| 11 | Pierre-Luc Dubois | Left Wing | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $13,607,500$13.6m |
| 12 | Jordie Benn | Defenseman | 10 | 2011 to 2021 | - | $10,850,000$10.9m |
| 13 | Marko Dano | Center | 7 | 2014 to 2020 | - | $4,161,285$4.2m |
| 14 | Ville Heinola | Defenseman | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $2,904,804$2.9m |
| 15 | Dominic Toninato | Center | 6 | 2017 to 2022 | - | $2,879,972$2.9m |
| 16 | Evgeny Svechnikov | Left Wing | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $2,426,054$2.4m |
| 17 | Kevin Stenlund | Center | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $2,376,201$2.4m |
| 18 | Logan Stanley | Defenseman | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $2,288,036$2.3m |
| 19 | Jansen Harkins | Center | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $1,863,188$1.9m |
| 20 | Morgan Barron | Center | 3 | 2020 to 2022 | - | $1,528,643$1.5m |
| 21 | Kristian Vesalainen | Left Wing | 4 | 2018 to 2021 | - | $1,484,671$1.5m |
| 22 | David Gustafsson | Center | 2 | 2019 to 2020 | - | $1,182,277 |
| 23 | Austin Poganski | Right Wing | 3 | 2019 to 2021 | - | $913,886 |
| 24 | Luke Johnson | Center | 3 | 2018 to 2020 | - | $499,142 |
Winnipeg Jets money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2021-22 is the biggest year on this chart at $72,831,227. 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 Winnipeg Jets player?
Blake Wheeler. His contracts are worth $82,801,220 across 16 seasons from 2008 to 2023.
What have Winnipeg Jets players earned in total?
$488,455,069 across 24 careers, an average of $20,352,295 each. That is 1.8% of every dollar in the NHL file.
How does that rank?
Winnipeg Jets is 32 of 32 franchises by total career money, behind Ottawa Senators on $505,932,371.
How many are still being paid?
1 of the 24 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $4,800,000 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the Winnipeg Jets 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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