{"id":15107,"date":"2025-05-29T12:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/premiership-rugby-salary-cap-report-shows-drop-in-salaries-but-fly-halves-earn-most\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:55:12","slug":"premiership-rugby-salary-cap-report-shows-drop-in-salaries-but-fly-halves-earn-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/premiership-rugby-salary-cap-report-shows-drop-in-salaries-but-fly-halves-earn-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Rugby salary cap report shows drop in salaries – but fly-halves earn most"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Fly-half remains the best paid position in rugby union’s Premiership, while scrum-half is the lowest paid.<\/b><\/p>\n

Figures in the latest Premiership Rugby salary cap report show senior player salaries dropped by 11.4% between the 2022-23 season and 2023-24.<\/p>\n

However, there was a 14.5% increase in academy players’ salaries, indicating a shift towards investing in homegrown talent.<\/p>\n

The latest salary cap report, external<\/span><\/a> covers just the 2023-24 season, not the current 2024-25 campaign which soon ends. <\/p>\n

Most positions have seen an average drop in salary, but fly-half, back-row and hooker all saw average increases.<\/p>\n

Starting with the highest-paid to the lowest, the positions are ranked: fly-half, back-row, centre, lock, prop, full-back, hooker, wing and scrum-half.<\/p>\n

The mean average for a fly-half was up to \u00a3231,182 and for a scrum-half \u00a3119,614.<\/p>\n

Senior squad sizes are down from an average of 47 to 43 and the income of players with more than 50 international caps went down by an average of almost \u00a322,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Fly-half remains the best paid position in rugby union’s Premiership, while scrum-half is the lowest paid. Figures in the latest Premiership Rugby salary cap report show senior player salaries dropped by 11.4% between the 2022-23 season and 2023-24. However, there was a 14.5% increase in academy players’ salaries, indicating a shift towards investing in homegrown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15109,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15107\/revisions\/15109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}