Friday, May 25, 2012

2012 Salaries Released

Today, the MLS Players' Union released the player salaries for this year on their website.  Once again it's full of information regarding the player salaries for Sporting KC and the rest of the teams around the league.  The league has made big strides in making the salary of the players improve and making a much more liveable wage for the players. 

Here is the list of salaries for Kansas City, the first number is the 2012 base salary.  The second is the guaranteed compensation.


Aiyegbusi, Olukorede D $44,100.00 $44,100.00
Besler, Matt D $91,751.00 $103,001.00
Bunbury, Teal F $100,000.00 $198,000.00
Cesar, Julio D $252,000.00 $255,750.00
Collin, Aurelien D $210,000.00 $216,250.00
Convey, Bobby M $200,000.00 $215,000.00
Dwyer, Dom F $60,000.00 $72,500.00
Ellis, Kevin D $44,000.00 $44,750.00
Espinoza, Roger M $125,000.00 $158,750.00
Harrington, Michael M-D $125,000.00 $151,833.33
Hedrick, Cyprian M $33,756.00 $33,756.00
Joseph, Peterson M $44,100.00 $44,100.00
Kamara, Kei F $210,000.00 $212,500.00
Kempin, Jonathan GK $46,500.00 $53,583.33
Kronberg, Eric GK $69,850.00 $69,850.00
Myers, Chance D-M $86,000.00 $101,666.67
Nagamura, Paulo M $250,000.00 $255,500.00
Nielsen, Jimmy GK $200,000.00 $220,000.00
Olum, Lawrence M/D $44,100.00 $44,100.00
Peterson, Jacob F $81,000.00 $85,833.33
Saad, Soony F $44,000.00 $44,000.00
Sapong, CJ F $65,000.00 $82,000.00
Sassano, Luke M-D $81,000.00 $83,025.00
Singh, Shawn D $33,750.00 $33,750.00
Sinovic, Seth M-D $60,000.00 $66,750.00
Thomas, Michael M $55,000.00 $57,963.21
Warzycha, Konrad M $33,750.00 $33,750.00
Zusi, Graham F-M $105,000.00 $138,812.50

Some thoughts on the salaries.

- Graham Zusi had the biggest salary increase, going from $42,000 last year to $105,000 this year, a nice increase of $63,000 per year.  Not a bad jump.

- Matt Besler and Seth Sinovic also saw nice jumps.  Besler jumper $33,341 and Sinovic jumped $27,396.

- Paulo Nagamura may be one of the most expensive back ups in the league, making a quarter million.  Combine that with Michael Harrington's $125,000, Jacob Peterson's and Luke Sassano's $81,000 each KC has over half a million, $537,000, on four players that are regularly on the bench.

- CJ Sapong and Sinovic are probably still the best deals on the roster.  Sapong got a raise this year of $23,000 and between the two, they're making as much as Harrington is.

One more final thing, here's a look at the change in players' base salary between last year and this year.  Only two players, Bobby Convey and Peterson had their salaries drop from their salaries last year.


Aiyegbusi, Olukorede $2,100.00
Besler, Matt $33,341.00
Bunbury, Teal $15,000.00
Cesar, Julio $42,000.00
Collin, Aurelien $24,996.00
Convey, Bobby ($113,500.00)
Dwyer, Dom $60,000.00
Ellis, Kevin $11,396.00
Espinoza, Roger $25,000.00
Harrington, Michael $15,000.00
Hedrick, Cyprian $33,756.00
Joseph, Peterson $2,100.00
Kamara, Kei $10,000.00
Kempin, Jonathan $4,500.00
Kronberg, Eric $7,350.00
Myers, Chance $14,000.00
Nagamura, Paulo $25,000.00
Nielsen, Jimmy $0.00
Olum, Lawrence $44,100.00
Peterson, Jacob ($61,500.00)
Saad, Soony $11,396.00
Sapong, CJ $23,000.00
Sassano, Luke $29,400.00
Singh, Shawn $33,750.00
Sinovic, Seth $27,396.00
Thomas, Michael $55,000.00
Warzycha, Konrad $1,146.00
Zusi, Graham $63,000.00

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