Wages

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The wages (or salary) are calculated using the player's skills, mainly the primary skill which is the single most important factor.

The minimum wage is 250 US$ and when a player reaches 29 years of age, his salary base starts to decrease.

Wages are updated at the same time that the players turn a year older.

Calculation

The salary is 250 US$/€ (remember to check the appropriate conversion rate) plus a certain amount based on his skills and minus a certain amount because of age.

Today is hard to reach top level skills due to training slowering after "Titanic", but in the past the best players, who could easily have "Divine" primary, had over the million € wages. ^[1]

The operation is

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Wage = 250 € + wage contribution of the main skill + 1/2 of the other skills’ contribution + Set pieces bonus

Wage contribution of the main skill

It is the skill with the highest salary, not the skill with the highest level.

1/2 of the other skills contribution

this is a sum of the secondary skill and cost must be multiplied by 50% (or half) only when the primary school salary is less than 20 000 US$; for primary salary 20 300 or higher, the secondary school cost must be multiplied by 40% (or 2/5).

Set Pieces bonus

It's calculated as 1 + SP * 0.25. Impact on wage depends on how high the Set Pieces skill is for each player. Each level of SP skill, indeed, increases the wage with 0.25% (Divine SP increases salary by 5%).

The calculation of the wage requires the knowledge of each secondary skill’s contribution to the wage. To determine the cost of each skill in terms of wage, we must observe the below table of mono-skilled players' minimum wage, where the secondary skills have no influence on his wage.

Contribution of the higher skill to wage in Euro/US dollars

Skill	Keeping	Defending	Playmaking	Passing	Winger	Scoring
Disastrous	250	250	250	250	250	250
Wretched	270	250	250	250	250	250
Poor	350	250	250	250	250	250
Weak	450	250	250	250	250	250
Inadequate	610	250	250	250	250	250
Passable	830	270	270	250	250	270
Solid	1 150	310	330	290	290	330
Excellent	1 590	450	510	390	370	470
Formidable	2 250	730	850	590	550	790
Outstanding	3 170	1 290	1 550	970	890	1 430
Brilliant	4 530	2 310	2 830	1 690	1 530	2 570
Magnificent	6 450	4 070	5 030	2 930	2 630	4 550
World class	9 150	6 930	8 610	4 930	4 430	7 770
Supernatural	12 910	11 450	14 250	8 090	7 250	12 830
Titanic	18 050	18 270	22 370	12 870	11 510	20 490
Extra-terrestrial	24 150	26 840	32 450	19 910	17 810	29 650
Mythical	31 480	38 310	46 640	28 200	25 650	42 480
Magical	40 930	54 160	66 330	39 440	35 720	60 240
Utopian	52 990	75 730	93 180	54 680	49 380	84 470
Divine	68 210		129 150	75 100	67 660
D+1	87 280				91 800

For almost all of the skills there is no impact on the wage beyond the "Inadequate" (5) level. Any player with a skill equal or less to Inadequate will have the minimum wage of 250 €. The only exception is the Goalkeeping skill, where the wage impact starts from the "Wretched" (2) level.

Wage decrease

When players turn 29 they start losing part of their skill and this causes wage reduction. In addition, every year a player has a wage reduction.

Wage decrease ^[2]

Age	will lose... of the wage
28	0% (reference wage)
29	10% (-10%)
30	20% (-10%)
31	30% (-10%)
32	40% (-10%)
33	50% (-10%)
34	60% (-10%)
35	70% (-10%)
36	80% (-10%)
37	90% (-10%)
38 on	No change

Foreigner, specialists and National Players

Players who are playing out of their home country cost their clubs an extra 20%, which at higher levels can be a large amount (to several thousand €).

Since season 83 players with specialties earn an additional 10%. The system is under implementation, increasing affected player wages by 2% at the start of each season. By the start of season 87 this will be fully implemented.

With training, it is possible to overtrain a player, so that his wages become astronomically high. National Team players may have very high wages per week, and are trained by farm teams who operate solely to support one NT player.

Transfer market wise, these players are generally worth less than players with slightly lower skills, due to their enormous wages.

Footnotes

1. ^  Until the wage reduction of 2011, the calculation was done by adding up the cost in terms of wage for each skill to the minimum wage of 250 €. So the calculation of the wage used to be made like this:
(before 2011) Wage = 250 € + the sum of the wage contribution of the skills

   For example, a player having "World Class" (13) Playmaking and "Brilliant" (11) Defending had a salary equal to the cumulative wages of two monoskill players: one "WorldClass" Playmaking and one "Brilliant" Defending (plus the minimum wage of 250 €).

2. ^  Source: busawreck research (in 6550779.8). Note that, before global season 43, the decrease was:

Age	will lose
28-29	12,5% of the wage (1/8)
29-30	14,3% of the wage (1/7)
30-31	16,7% of the wage (1/6)
31-32	20,0% of the wage (1/5)
32-33	25,0% of the wage (1/4)
33-34	33,3% of the wage (1/3)
34-35	50,0% of the wage (1/2)
35 on	No change

See also

• Barthons Salary Analysis
• Wage Wizard