Serie A wages fell by €72m over the last year, with Juventus cutting €58m and €25m shaved off the Milan books, but Cristiano Ronaldo remains by far the league’s highest earner.
La Gazzetta dello Sport analysed the various salary statistics of every Serie A club and found the general trend was to cut costs in 2020-21.
The overall wage bill had been rising rapidly from €882m in 2015-16 to €1,129m in 2018-19 to €1,36m a year later.
Serie A wages fell by €72m over the last year, with Juventus cutting €58m and €25m shaved off the Milan books, but Cristiano Ronaldo remains by far the league’s highest earner.
La Gazzetta dello Sport analysed the various salary statistics of every Serie A club and found the general trend was to cut costs in 2020-21.
The overall wage bill had been rising rapidly from €882m in 2015-16 to €1,129m in 2018-19 to €1,36m a year later.
However, it fell in 2020-21 to €1,288, due both to general spending cuts and the special tax break on foreigners coming into Italy for business.
Juventus made the most cuts, slicing €58m off their total wage bill, even though they remain comfortably the biggest overall spenders on salaries.
Cristiano Ronaldo makes up €31m of their total €236m expenditure, with Matthijs de Ligt the next highest earner at the club on €8m and Paulo Dybala €7.3m.
Milan also cut costs from €115m to the current €90m, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic becoming the top earner on €7m per year, ahead of Gianluigi Donnarumma’s €6m.
Inter increased their wage bill after signing a series of experienced players and are the second biggest spenders in Serie A with €149m, still a very long way behind Juve.
Roma cut their wages by €13m, whereas Lazio increased theirs by €11m following the Champions League qualification.
Atalanta continued their general growth by adding €6.6m to the salary bill.