Wage Bill

[Dazzza]

Anyone know roughly what our current wage bill is?

Just read that Watford have the fourth lowest in the Championship at £3.5 million per year.  It would be interesting to see how we stand by comparison.

[STFC Village]

I'm probably being extremely naive here, but i'd imagine it was somewhere between £800k-£500k p/a, as a guesstimation. Method to the madness....

If the average wage for the squad was around £500p/w ---> £2000p/m ----> £24,000p/a. Around 20 contracted players, so 20 x 24,000 = £480,000p/a on wages.

If it was more like £800p/w ---> £3,200p/m ----> £38,400p/a. 20 x 38,400 = £768,000p/a on wages.

Obviously, there will be a few players earning double the average, but that'll be offset by the loanees/youth teamers in the squad. Can't see it being much more than that anyway.

But, of course, this is all complete guesswork, and has been posted as a timewaster while i'm meant to be working, so is probably best ignored

EDIT: Of course, i'm talking pre-Wise/Poyet/anybody else that has/is joining over the Summer

[Simon Pieman]

Our wage bill in the 2003/04 season was just over £2.7m and was around this figure the 2 seasons prior

[Simon Pieman]

That's total wages btw. I think Village is so naive, yet so.

[Ralphy]

Pieman, does that £2.7 m wage bill figure include playing staff, coaching staff, backroom staff etc or just first team players?

[STFCere]

Our wage bill in the 2003/04 season was just over £2.7m and was around this figure the 2 seasons prior

where did you get this from si? would be quite interesting to look at stfc accounts

[Simon Pieman]

Pieman, does that £2.7 m wage bill figure include playing staff, coaching staff, backroom staff etc or just first team players?

]That's total wages btw

Got them from FAME via www.bvdep.com

Normally you pay a subscription but login under your university Athens password and you're sorted.

[STFCere]

cheers si, didnt know you could get stfc on fame! should be interesting

[STFC Village]

That's total wages btw. I think Village is so naive, yet so.

Ace

[Dazzza]

That's fairly impressive from Watford's point of view considering they're not far operating our bargain bucket trough.  Plus food for thought what can be achieved on a budget not a million miles from touching distance.

[Simon Pieman]

It is a couple of seasons ago, but we did spend more than a fair few teams.

[Ben Wah Balls]

In 2001/2002 our wage bill was £2,892,162 but that's for all of the 82 staff we were employing, 69 players, coaches, administration and ground staff and 13 commercial activity staff.