MLS
Earnings by FranchiseMLS Career Earnings
Listing the top salaries, career earnings for all MLS players.
| Rank | Player | Pos | Draft | YOE | Teams | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Bradley | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
TOR: $44.04M / MLS: $0.73M
|
$44,767,857 |
| 2 | Jozy Altidore | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
TOR: $32.99M / MLS: $5.18M / NE: $4.26M
|
$42,434,250 |
| 3 | Lionel Messi | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
MIA: $40.89M
|
$40,893,334 |
| 4 | Lorenzo Insigne | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
TOR: $36.90M
|
$36,900,000 |
| 5 | Carlos Vela | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
LAFC: $32.91M
|
$32,905,000 |
| 6 | Ricardo Kaká | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
ORL: $28.67M
|
$28,670,000 |
| 7 | Sebastian Giovinco | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
TOR: $28.46M
|
$28,462,224 |
| 8 | Clint Dempsey | F | 0-R0 | 1 |
SEA: $26.49M
|
$26,488,574 |
| 9 | Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
LA: $25.44M
|
$25,443,750 |
| 10 | Xherdan Shaqiri | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
CHI: $24.46M
|
$24,459,000 |
| 11 | Robbie Keane | F | 0-R0 | 3 |
LA: $23.67M
|
$23,667,818 |
| 12 | Josef Martinez | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
ATL: $16.83M / MIA: $4.39M / MTL: $1.31M
|
$22,529,386 |
| 13 | David Villa | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
NYC: $22.50M
|
$22,500,000 |
| 14 | Nicolas Lodeiro | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
SEA: $20.16M / ORL: $0.80M
|
$20,964,359 |
| 15 | Giovani Dos Santos | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
LA: $19.85M
|
$19,850,008 |
| 16 | Carles Gil | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
NE: $19.27M
|
$19,270,583 |
| 17 | Landon Donovan | M | 0-R0 | 13 |
LA: $18.87M / SJ: $0.00M
|
$18,867,110 |
| 18 | Federico Bernardeschi | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
TOR: $18.85M
|
$18,847,084 |
| 19 | Alejandro Pozuelo | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
TOR: $13.19M / MIA: $4.69M
|
$17,879,000 |
| 20 | Sebastian Driussi | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
ATX: $17.75M
|
$17,750,420 |
| 21 | Bastian Schweinsteiger | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
CHI: $17.10M
|
$17,100,000 |
| 22 | Raul Ruidiaz | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
SEA: $17.07M
|
$17,071,364 |
| 23 | Hector Herrera | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
HOU: $15.74M
|
$15,740,625 |
| 24 | Maximiliano Moralez | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
NYC: $15.28M
|
$15,282,250 |
| 25 | Albert Rusnak | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
RSL: $8.20M / SEA: $5.97M
|
$14,160,636 |
| 26 | Andrea Pirlo | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
NYC: $14.15M
|
$14,147,074 |
| 27 | Gonzalo Higuaín | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
MIA: $13.74M
|
$13,738,398 |
| 28 | Rodolfo Pizarro | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
MIA: $13.40M
|
$13,400,000 |
| 29 | Christian Benteke | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
DC: $13.30M
|
$13,303,056 |
| 30 | Luciano Acosta | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
CIN: $10.83M / DC: $2.39M
|
$13,214,377 |
| 31 | Hany Mukhtar | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
NSH: $12.94M
|
$12,940,417 |
| 32 | Victor Wanyama | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
MTL: $12.89M
|
$12,891,108 |
| 33 | Alan Pulido | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
SKC: $12.67M
|
$12,666,667 |
| 34 | Steven Gerrard | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
LA: $12.47M
|
$12,465,004 |
| 35 | Luiz Araujo | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
ATL: $12.37M
|
$12,366,667 |
| 36 | Frank Lampard | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
NYC: $12.00M
|
$12,000,000 |
| 37 | Sebastian Blanco | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
POR: $11.91M
|
$11,907,690 |
| 38 | Darlington Nagbe | M | 2011-R1 | 3 |
CLB: $8.34M / POR: $2.28M / ATL: $1.29M
|
$11,906,500 |
| 39 | Gustavo Bou | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
NE: $11.69M
|
$11,690,000 |
| 40 | Lucas Zelarayan | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
CLB: $11.43M
|
$11,425,000 |
| 41 | Diego Valeri | M | 0-R0 | 1 |
POR: $11.15M
|
$11,152,250 |
| 42 | Ignacio Piatti | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
MTL: $10.82M
|
$10,819,166 |
| 43 | Gyasi Zardes | F | 0-R0 | 10 |
CLB: $5.69M / ATX: $1.80M / LA: $1.64M / COL: $1.55M
|
$10,685,667 |
| 44 | Sergio Busquets | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
MIA: $10.55M
|
$10,549,996 |
| 45 | Diego Rossi | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
CLB: $6.05M / LAFC: $4.21M
|
$10,261,827 |
| 46 | Walker Zimmerman | D | 2013-R1 | 1 |
NSH: $8.49M / DAL: $0.87M / LAFC: $0.84M
|
$10,194,408 |
| 47 | Ezequiel Barco | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
ATL: $10.10M
|
$10,100,000 |
| 48 | Tim Howard | GK | 0-R0 | 0 |
COL: $10.00M
|
$10,000,000 |
| 49 | Gaston Gimenez | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
CHI: $9.86M
|
$9,856,667 |
| 50 | Ryan Gauld | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
VAN: $9.78M
|
$9,780,000 |
| 51 | Alejandro Bedoya | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
PHI: $9.68M
|
$9,682,666 |
| 52 | Johnny Russell | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
SKC: $9.55M
|
$9,550,000 |
| 53 | Fanendo Adi | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
CIN: $3.90M / POR: $3.71M / CLB: $1.78M / MIN: $0.08M
|
$9,460,778 |
| 54 | Franco Jara | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
DAL: $9.09M
|
$9,091,000 |
| 55 | Alexander Ring | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
ATX: $6.04M / NYC: $2.78M
|
$8,818,334 |
| 56 | Zlatan Ibrahimovic | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
LA: $8.70M
|
$8,700,000 |
| 57 | Cucho Hernandez | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
CLB: $8.66M
|
$8,658,000 |
| 58 | Damir Kreilach | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
RSL: $7.93M / VAN: $0.44M
|
$8,367,537 |
| 59 | Jordan Morris | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
SEA: $8.30M
|
$8,296,150 |
| 60 | Paul Arriola | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
DAL: $4.59M / DC: $3.50M
|
$8,091,800 |
| 61 | Riqui Puig | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
LA: $8.07M
|
$8,069,688 |
| 62 | Jonathan dos Santos | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
LA: $8.00M
|
$8,000,000 |
| 63 | Omar Gonzalez | D | 2009-R1 | 5 |
LA: $3.74M / TOR: $3.25M / NE: $0.90M / DAL: $0.11M
|
$7,995,524 |
| 64 | Kellyn Acosta | D | 0-R0 | 0 |
COL: $3.05M / LAFC: $2.58M / CHI: $1.56M / DAL: $0.75M
|
$7,937,369 |
| 65 | Denis Bouanga | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
LAFC: $7.78M
|
$7,776,166 |
| 66 | Jermaine Jones | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
NE: $6.31M / LA: $0.72M / COL: $0.65M
|
$7,677,500 |
| 67 | Cristian Espinoza | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
SJ: $7.61M
|
$7,612,000 |
| 68 | Douglas Costa de Souza | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
LA: $7.51M
|
$7,508,333 |
| 69 | Jonathan Mensah | D | 0-R0 | 0 |
CLB: $5.78M / SJ: $1.17M / NE: $0.51M
|
$7,460,505 |
| 70 | Nani | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
ORL: $7.46M
|
$7,458,750 |
| 71 | Federico Higuain | F | 0-R0 | 2 |
CLB: $7.27M / MIA: $0.16M
|
$7,434,750 |
| 72 | Bradley Wright-Phillips | F | 0-R0 | 1 |
RBNY: $6.49M / CLB: $0.48M / LAFC: $0.34M
|
$7,303,250 |
| 73 | Emanuel Reynoso | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
MIN: $7.30M
|
$7,303,130 |
| 74 | Teemu Pukki | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
MIN: $7.10M
|
$7,100,000 |
| 75 | Maximiliano Urruti | F | 0-R0 | 1 |
MTL: $2.67M / ATX: $1.40M / DAL: $1.33M / HOU: $1.27M / POR: $0.40M
|
$7,070,646 |
| 76 | Ilie Sanchez | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
LAFC: $3.63M / SKC: $3.44M
|
$7,060,383 |
| 77 | Fredy Montero | F | 0-R0 | 4 |
VAN: $4.02M / SEA: $2.99M
|
$7,005,375 |
| 78 | Thiago Almada | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
ATL: $6.90M
|
$6,896,000 |
| 79 | Kevin Cabral | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
COL: $3.75M / LA: $3.09M
|
$6,840,000 |
| 80 | David Accam | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
CHI: $2.31M / NSH: $2.11M / PHI: $1.25M / CLB: $1.14M
|
$6,806,566 |
| 81 | Karol Swiderski | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
CLT: $6.77M
|
$6,774,000 |
| 82 | Cristian Roldan | M | 2015-R1 | 0 |
SEA: $6.77M
|
$6,770,168 |
| 83 | Darwin Quintero | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
MIN: $3.40M / HOU: $3.37M
|
$6,765,360 |
| 84 | Dom Dwyer | F | 2012-R1 | 2 |
ORL: $5.19M / SKC: $1.38M / MLS: $0.09M / ATL: $0.08M / TOR: $0.00M
|
$6,740,193 |
| 85 | Jesus Ferreira | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
DAL: $6.73M
|
$6,732,750 |
| 86 | Graham Zusi | M | 2009-R2 | 14 |
SKC: $6.67M
|
$6,670,290 |
| 87 | Jonathan Osorio | M | 0-R0 | 10 |
TOR: $6.67M
|
$6,667,702 |
| 88 | Thiago Martins | D | 0-R0 | 0 |
NYC: $6.54M
|
$6,536,000 |
| 89 | Robin Lod | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
MIN: $6.49M
|
$6,488,734 |
| 90 | Carlos Gruezo | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
SJ: $3.25M / DAL: $3.17M
|
$6,426,672 |
| 91 | Sebastián Ferreira | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
HOU: $6.39M
|
$6,390,600 |
| 92 | Emiliano Rigoni | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
ATX: $6.39M
|
$6,390,144 |
| 93 | Yimmi Chara | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
POR: $6.39M
|
$6,390,000 |
| 94 | Dax McCarty | M | 2006-R1 | 8 |
NSH: $2.25M / CHI: $1.91M / RBNY: $1.60M / DAL: $0.38M / ATL: $0.26M
|
$6,389,730 |
| 95 | Roger Espinoza | M | 2011-R1 | 13 |
SKC: $6.37M
|
$6,369,194 |
| 96 | Kei Kamara | F | 2006-R1 | 7 |
NE: $1.80M / VAN: $1.00M / KC: $0.97M / COL: $0.75M / MIN: $0.75M / CLB: $0.62M / CHI: $0.23M / MTL: $0.09M / LAFC: $0.09M / HOU: $0.06M
|
$6,357,617 |
| 97 | Wayne Rooney | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
DC: $6.28M
|
$6,284,231 |
| 98 | Joao Paulo Mior | M | 0-R0 | 0 |
SEA: $6.25M
|
$6,249,999 |
| 99 | Yuya Kubo | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
CIN: $6.22M
|
$6,222,500 |
| 100 | Brenner Souza da Silva | F | 0-R0 | 0 |
CIN: $6.20M
|
$6,197,618 |
