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Topic Originator: ianbd6
Date: Sat 21 Jun 13:15
I have no clue as to what players earn in Scotland and more specifically the scottish championship. Reading the transfers thread and the expectations of some posters. I ask the question any of you guy`s any idea what the Pars would have to pay any signings.
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Topic Originator: Never10yairds
Date: Sat 21 Jun 13:26
It’s a very broad spectrum Ian. At the lower end, probably about £400-500 a week. Even less for some youngsters. At the higher end there will be a few guys at County and StJ on 3k a week.
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Topic Originator: Lesliepartoo
Date: Sat 21 Jun 13:29
There on alot more than that . You can multiply that by 3 easily for some players.
Cmon ye pars
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Topic Originator: Berry
Date: Sat 21 Jun 13:33
Don’t think it’s any of our business really, much like I shouldn’t know what your salaries are.
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Topic Originator: Never10yairds
Date: Sat 21 Jun 13:51
Leslie, you reckon there are players at our level on 9k? I’d be surprised. Unless wages at this level have took a steep hike in the last few years.
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Sat 21 Jun 14:06
Quote:
Lesliepartoo, Sat 21 Jun 13:29
There on alot more than that . You can multiply that by 3 easily for some players.
Bollocks!
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: onandupthepars
Date: Sat 21 Jun 14:10
Never10yairds idea of some on only £400 - 500 a week - wouldn`t that be below minimum wage? If so - Illegal I would think. I agree with Berry - none of our business. I wonder how our boys are getting on in Bulgaria? A wee `postcard home` for us fans would be lovely.
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Topic Originator: Never10yairds
Date: Sat 21 Jun 14:31
Onandup
Yeah it’s probably went up a bit in the last couple years at the bottom end actually with cost of living and rise in min wage.
I think it’s pretty natural for fans to want to speculate about wages, who is affordable for us, who isn’t etc. I quite like the full transparency you get with the NFL where everyone’s wages are public knowledge, although I understand this is because of the salary cap restrictions.
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Topic Originator: cammypar 1995
Date: Sat 21 Jun 14:37
Dunfermline Athletic total wage bill for 2025 is:
£832,624 per year
£16,012 per week
The highest earning player in the squad is Kane Ritchie-Hosler earning £2,000 per week.
Player Name Weekly Wage Yearly Salary Age Position Nationality
Kane Ritchie-Hosler £2,000 £104,000 21 WB/AM R England
Deniz Mehmet £1,020 £53,040 31 GK Türkiye
Chris Kane £1,011 £52,572 29 ST Scotland
Craig Wighton £980 £50,960 26 ST Scotland
Michael O`Halloran £880 £45,760 33 AM RLC, F C Scotland
Kyle Benedictus £850 £44,200 32 D C Scotland
Dapo Mebude £826 £42,952 22 AM RL, ST Scotland
Joe Chalmers £810 £42,120 30 DM Scotland
Aaron Comrie £750 £39,000 27 D RC Scotland
Chris Hamilton £730 £37,960 22 D RC, DM Scotland
This was taken from salary sport. Probably not bang on but wouldn`t be far out I`d say.
c'mon the pars
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Topic Originator: shellypar
Date: Sat 21 Jun 14:47
Quote:
cammypar 1995, Sat 21 Jun 14:37
Dunfermline Athletic total wage bill for 2025 is:
£832,624 per year
£16,012 per week
The highest earning player in the squad is Kane Ritchie-Hosler earning £2,000 per week.
Player Name Weekly Wage Yearly Salary Age Position Nationality
Kane Ritchie-Hosler £2,000 £104,000 21 WB/AM R England
Deniz Mehmet £1,020 £53,040 31 GK Türkiye
Chris Kane £1,011 £52,572 29 ST Scotland
Craig Wighton £980 £50,960 26 ST Scotland
Michael O`Halloran £880 £45,760 33 AM RLC, F C Scotland
Kyle Benedictus £850 £44,200 32 D C Scotland
Dapo Mebude £826 £42,952 22 AM RL, ST Scotland
Joe Chalmers £810 £42,120 30 DM Scotland
Aaron Comrie £750 £39,000 27 D RC Scotland
Chris Hamilton £730 £37,960 22 D RC, DM Scotland
This was taken from salary sport. Probably not bang on but wouldn`t be far out I`d say.
Ha
COYP
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Topic Originator: ianbd6
Date: Sat 21 Jun 14:53
Quote:
Berry, Sat 21 Jun 13:33
Don’t think it’s any of our business really, much like I shouldn’t know what your salaries are.
I wasn`t asking for the earnings of any particular player just a rough idea. Folk are mentioning the club should be signing players from the premiership and league two and national league were mentioned. Guys in them leagues will earn 1 to 2 grand a week so I wondered what the going rate in the Scottish championship was.
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Topic Originator: Lesliepartoo
Date: Sat 21 Jun 15:26
Quote:
Never10yairds, Sat 21 Jun 13:51
Leslie, you reckon there are players at our level on 9k? I’d be surprised. Unless wages at this level have took a steep hike in the last few years.
Not atall. I ment the 400 to 500 multiplied by 3
Cmon ye pars
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Sat 21 Jun 15:45
Quote:
onandupthepars, Sat 21 Jun 14:10
Never10yairds idea of some on only £400 - 500 a week - wouldn`t that be below minimum wage? If so - Illegal I would think. I agree with Berry - none of our business. I wonder how our boys are getting on in Bulgaria? A wee `postcard home` for us fans would be lovely.
If £400-500 is below minimum wage for a week I best take my employer to a tribunal.
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: parsfan
Date: Sat 21 Jun 15:57
Quote:
AdamAntsParsStripe, Sat 21 Jun 15:45
Quote:
onandupthepars, Sat 21 Jun 14:10
Never10yairds idea of some on only £400 - 500 a week - wouldn`t that be below minimum wage? If so - Illegal I would think. I agree with Berry - none of our business. I wonder how our boys are getting on in Bulgaria? A wee `postcard home` for us fans would be lovely.
If £400-500 is below minimum wage for a week I best take my employer to a tribunal.
It`ll all depend on how many hours they work.
U18 would need to work just under 53 hours on minimum wage (£7.55) to earn £400 per week. 18-20 40 hours and over 21 (£12.21) just under 33.
I don`t think they get paid by the hour.
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The universe is ruled by chance and indifference
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Topic Originator: Back_oh_the_net
Date: Sat 21 Jun 16:21
Quote:
onandupthepars, Sat 21 Jun 14:10
Never10yairds idea of some on only £400 - 500 a week - wouldn`t that be below minimum wage? If so - Illegal I would think. I agree with Berry - none of our business. I wonder how our boys are getting on in Bulgaria? A wee `postcard home` for us fans would be lovely.
Think £400-£500 a week would be after tax
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Sat 21 Jun 16:48
I`m not sure what sort of money they would earn, I`m guessing maybe a decent first team player would be anywhere from £800 - £1,200 per week.
I do know one young lad who left here when his youth team contract ran out last summer when he was 18. I was a bit surprised to learn that he was only on £150 a week. His dad said to me that it wasn`t meeting minimum wage requirements, as they were putting in a lot of extra hours doing chores, it wasn`t all just training.
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Topic Originator: coventrypar
Date: Sat 21 Jun 17:28
The minimum wage at 21 for a 37.5 hour week is £457.87
"If you have no kind words to say you should say nothing more at all"
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Topic Originator: Rigger Al
Date: Sat 21 Jun 18:06
At the end of the day salaries are agreed by club and player ,not only salaries but bonus and other factors .
In my work place two or more may have the same skill sets and experience but all maybe on different salaries and benifits .all about negotiating and agreeing with what you are happy to accept and what the company are happy to pay
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Topic Originator: Paralytic77
Date: Sat 21 Jun 18:52
Players will also be on at a rough guess £150- £200 a point and if you`re in the starting line up £150 - £200 bonus on top of your weekly wage
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Topic Originator: Berkey
Date: Sat 21 Jun 19:37
Yeah we defo cleared out everyone we could from the higher earners looking at that, time for hosler to repay some of that faith, barely kicked a ball for us for 2 years now. Guessing mullan must be highest earner now.
Given our new owners and those stated ambitions it’s would be quite disheatening to think we couldn’t compete wages wise with st Johnstone or Ross county.
We are either not prepared to pay the going rate at the moment or pinning hopes on better becoming available later on. The analytics won’t have told us anything new in the last month or 2 given no games on so something might have to give.
The post below replying to me is by one of .nets finest champions of mediocrity!
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sat 21 Jun 19:46
To think my son signed a pro contract with East Fife way back in 1996, his pay was £1.00 per week plus expenses.
This was the benchmark for SFA pro contracts, we also had 3 on YTS scheme at Bayview, haven`t a clue what they were paid.
When Calum Smith and Spookie (Luke) were at EEP they were driving about in Mercs with personalised number plates!🤔
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Topic Originator: Alter Ego
Date: Sat 21 Jun 19:48
Our U18’s are on apprentice but get 13k a year.
Mon the Pars!
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Topic Originator: Paralytic77
Date: Sat 21 Jun 19:52
Quote:
LochgellyAlbert, Sat 21 Jun 19:46
To think my son signed a pro contract with East Fife way back in 1996, his pay was £1.00 per week plus expenses.
This was the benchmark for SFA pro contracts, we also had 3 on YTS scheme at Bayview, haven`t a clue what they were paid.
When Calum Smith and Spookie (Luke) were at EEP they were driving about in Mercs with personalised number plates!🤔
Yts at the pars in 1995 was £28.50 a week and an extra £10 if you played in the reserves on a Monday night
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Sat 21 Jun 19:59
Quote:
Alter Ego, Sat 21 Jun 19:48
Our U18’s are on apprentice but get 13k a year.
That`s gone up then, last season it was £7,800
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Topic Originator: Alter Ego
Date: Sat 21 Jun 20:15
But you can pay an apprenticeship any wage as an employer…They just have to work the hour as an apprenticeship contract.
Mon the Pars!
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Topic Originator: DJAS
Date: Sat 21 Jun 21:03
13k seems roughly the going rate for 1st year apprentice
Predictor league winner 2012/2013
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Topic Originator: DunPar
Date: Sun 22 Jun 12:05
Okay, very rough figures :
If we sell 4,000 season tickets at an average of £225 (?) then there’s £900k, and we get an average of 1,500 pay at the gates per game, then say £20 x 20 home games (assume a couple of cup games for ease) then that’s a total of £1,500,000 revenue. Let’s say the selling of merchandise and hospitality and Stephen’s pies pays for the upkeep of the stadium and pitch and training facilities and income from sponsors and advertising pays our tax bills and policing and stewarding ?
Then the gate money pays only for the football team salaries and we have 40 (?) staff to pay (including players, NL and VW and coaching team, physio etc) then it’s not a lot - an AVERAGE of less than £40k. Looking at another way, our overall gate money revenue would probably just about cover Calum McGregor’s alleged current salary.
Be interesting to see how budget actually works but a clearer picture would surely give a reality check to a lot of posters on here. It still doesn’t answer how the likes of Livingston manage to have much more success than us with significantly lower attendances.
(Wikipedia says we have 26 players at moment and 14 “management”. I appreciate the management team are not all full-time. But let’s say there’s 40 staff).
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Sun 22 Jun 12:40
Don`t forget the VAT man gets one-sixth of our gross income.
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Topic Originator: neilholland999
Date: Sun 22 Jun 12:57
Great post DunPar. Its things like this that emphasise the importance of having a decent cup run for teams like us, even if it means getting thrashed against Rangers or Celtic (ideally away from home) at some point. Does anybody know roughly how much money we get in terms of TV revenue (whether that be ParsTV and/or the BBC)?
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Topic Originator: Never10yairds
Date: Sun 22 Jun 13:35
Advertisement, sponsorship, hospitality and merchandise sales are other important revenue streams for the club too.
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Topic Originator: cammypar 1995
Date: Sun 22 Jun 14:08
The League Cup is huge for clubs at our level, and last season we made an absolute mess of what was a favourable group. It ended up being a massive financial blow on top of the on field embarrassment.
Had a dig through the SPFL site to check the prize money and, if I’m reading it right, Spartans made the following from last season’s run:
Group winners – £36,000
Round of 16 (win) – not separately listed but gets them to QF
Quarter-final (losing) – £100,000
Quarter-final TV fee – £30,000
Source: https://spfl.co.uk/news/spfl-announces-record-premier-sports-cup-prize-m
So just from prize money and TV fees alone, Spartans pocketed £166,000. That’s absolutely mental at this level.
Now I wouldn`t even like to guess what it cost us to bin McPake and then pay Kelty comp for Tidser before sacking him shortly after. That kind of cash would probably cover both, or at least go a long way toward it.
Just goes to show how important this cup is for any club outside the Premiership. A good run can basically bankroll major decisions. We can’t afford another meek group stage exit.
c'mon the pars
Post Edited (Sun 22 Jun 14:09)
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Topic Originator: JTH123
Date: Sun 22 Jun 14:24
Quote:
Never10yairds, Sun 22 Jun 13:35
Advertisement, sponsorship, hospitality and merchandise sales are other important revenue streams for the club too.
Yep. And there is a very large list of costs to factor-in as well. Everything from insurances, annual inspections, maintenance of equipment, employers NI, pension contributions, professional advisers (lawyers, accountants) etc etc. It would make your eyes water.
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Topic Originator: ianbd6
Date: Sun 22 Jun 19:42
And some folk questioned how the club could post a £1 million loss.
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sun 22 Jun 19:52
Let’s not forget salaries of non-football staff, which will be considerable
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
Post Edited (Sun 22 Jun 19:54)
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