Salary & Wage Data - Japan J1 League
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Salaries - J1 League
Players with the highest salaries in the J1 League (Japan)
| # | Player | Annual Salary | Position | Age | Apps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Yūya Ōsako | €1,811,370 | FW | 36 | 31 |
| 2 |  | Léo Ceará | €1,288,740 | FW | 31 | 34 |
| 3 |  | Anderson Lopes | €1,286,155 | FW | 32 | 20 |
| 4 | | Yoshinori Muto | €1,207,580 | FW | 34 | 19 |
| 5 |  | Mateus | €1,100,000 | FW | 31 | 25 |
| 6 | | Kasper Junker | €989,820 | FW | 32 | 16 |
| 7 |  | Thiago Santos Santana | €884,051 | FW | 33 | 19 |
| 8 | | Jean Patrick Lima dos Reis | €878,560 | FW | 29 | 19 |
| 9 | | Gotoku Sakai | €823,500 | DF | 35 | 31 |
| 10 | | Matheus Gonçalves Sávio | €796,485 | MF | 29 | 37 |
| 11 |  | Tolgay Arslan | €774,767 | MF | 36 | 9 |
| 12 |  | Yuto Nagatomo | €769,020 | DF | 39 | 27 |
| 13 |  | Takashi Usami | €767,900 | FW | 34 | 29 |
| 14 | | Ju-sung Kim | €762,656 | DF | 25 | 8 |
| 15 | | Shusaku Nishikawa | €713,960 | GK | 40 | 36 |
| 16 |  | Akihiro Ienaga | €712,270 | FW | 40 | 29 |
| 17 | | Marius Høibråten | €703,104 | DF | 31 | 36 |
| 18 | | Samuel Gustafson | €703,104 | MF | 31 | 32 |
| 19 | | Marcinho | €685,125 | FW | 31 | 37 |
| 20 | | Marcos Júnior Lima dos Santos | €659,588 | MF | 33 | 4 |
| 21 |  | Jin-Hyeon Kim | €658,680 | GK | 39 | 9 |
| 22 | | Genki Haraguchi | €631,810 | MF | 35 | 21 |
| 23 | | Welton Felipe Paragua de Melo | €614,208 | FW | 29 | 14 |
| 24 | | Rafael Ratão | €603,677 | FW | 30 | 36 |
| 25 | | Yuma Suzuki | €603,240 | FW | 30 | 38 |
| 26 | | Yan Matheus Santos Souza | €602,250 | FW | 28 | 24 |
| 27 |  | Neta Lavi | €537,530 | MF | 30 | 24 |
| 28 | | Gaku Shibasaki | €537,530 | MF | 34 | 19 |
| 29 | | Danilo Boza Junior | €527,424 | DF | 28 | 35 |
| 30 | | Matheus Soares Thuler | €527,136 | DF | 27 | 32 |
| 31 | | Issam Jebali | €526,618 | FW | 34 | 29 |
| 32 | | Everton Galdino Moreira | €516,530 | FW | 29 | 6 |
| 33 |  | Diego Jara Rodrigues | €515,402 | DF | 30 | 33 |
| 34 | | Naomichi Ueda | €510,105 | DF | 31 | 38 |
| 35 | | Sung-Ryong Jung | €493,445 | GK | 41 | 4 |
| 36 | | Mitchell Duke | €483,912 | FW | 35 | 25 |
| 37 | | Masato Morishige | €472,484 | DF | 39 | 23 |
| 38 | | Shinji Kagawa | €466,395 | MF | 37 | 33 |
| 39 |  | Lukian Araújo de Almeida | €456,002 | FW | 34 | 36 |
| 40 |  | Rafael Elias da Silva | €450,590 | FW | 26 | 27 |
| 41 | | Teruhito Nakagawa | €450,508 | FW | 34 | 33 |
| 42 | | Shinnosuke Nakatani | €449,770 | DF | 30 | 35 |
| 43 | | Ibrahim Dresevic | €439,920 | DF | 29 | 33 |
| 44 | | Gen Shōji | €439,803 | DF | 33 | 38 |
| 45 | | Masaya Okugawa | €439,600 | FW | 30 | 29 |
| 46 |  | Wellington Luís de Sousa | €439,310 | FW | 38 | 30 |
| 47 | | Shahab Zahedi | €439,280 | FW | 31 | 21 |
| 48 | | Lucas Fernandes | €438,960 | MF | 32 | 32 |
| 49 | | Vitor Frezarin Bueno | €438,880 | MF | 32 | 17 |
| 50 |  | Matheus Caldeira Vidotto de Oliveira | €431,279 | GK | 33 | 38 |
Who is the highest paid player in the J1 League?
Currently, the highest paid footballer in J1 League is Yūya Ōsako who plays for Vissel Kobe with an annual salary of €1,811,370 per season. The second highest is Léo Ceará with €1,288,740 per season, and the third highest paid footballer is Anderson Lopes with €1,286,155 per season.
Annual Salaries by Teams in the J1 League (Club Wage Bills)
* This table includes data for known salaries only
Which team has the highest payroll in the J1 League?
Currently, the football team with the highest payroll in J1 League is Vissel Kobe with an annual total payroll of €8,581,640. This represents an average of €330,063 of annual salary per player. This is 6% higher than Urawa Reds who is the team with the 2nd highest payroll in J1 League and 28% higher than Kashima Antlers who is the team with the third highest payroll in J1 League.
Players with the Lowest Salaries in the J1 League
* This table includes data for known salaries only. Lower range salaries can be inaccurate. We may update this table later.
| # | Player | Annual Salary | Position | Age | Apps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Mihiro Sato | €19,746 | DF | 19 | 2 |
| 2 |  | Yushin Otake | €21,968 | MF | 21 | 0 |
| 3 | | Gakuto Kawamura | €21,972 | FW | 20 | 0 |
| 4 | | Reno Noguchi | €22,990 | DF | 20 | 0 |
| 5 | | Hiroto Asada | €22,995 | FW | 18 | 1 |
| 6 | | Kaito Tsuchiya | €23,020 | DF | 20 | 1 |
| 7 | | Hiroto Noda | €23,020 | DF | 20 | 3 |
| 8 | | Gaku Nawata | €23,034 | FW | 20 | 4 |
| 9 | | Ao lin Zhang | €23,034 | GK | 21 | 0 |
| 10 | | Rui Araki | €23,037 | GK | 18 | 0 |
| 11 | | Kantaro Maeda | €23,045 | FW | 19 | 1 |
| 12 | | Sani Brown Abdel Hanan | €23,062 | FW | 20 | 3 |
| 13 | | Toshikazu Teruuchi | €23,062 | FW | 19 | 1 |
| 14 |  | Yudai Shimamoto | €23,063 | MF | 19 | 13 |
| 15 | | Motoki Nishihara | €23,067 | MF | 19 | 12 |
| 16 | | Sean Kotake | €23,067 | MF | 20 | 2 |
| 17 | | Riku Gunji | €23,067 | FW | 21 | 1 |
| 18 | | Ichika Maeda | €23,073 | FW | 20 | 1 |
| 19 | | Hikaru Maeda | €23,074 | FW | 17 | 1 |
| 20 |  | Sena Ishibashi | €23,074 | MF | 20 | 10 |
| 21 | | Ryosuke Shirai | €23,079 | FW | 21 | 11 |
| 22 | | Takei Yamamoto | €23,079 | MF | 20 | 0 |
| 23 | | Shungo Sugiura | €23,097 | MF | 20 | 6 |
| 24 | | Kohei Mochizuki | €24,068 | MF | 20 | 0 |
| 25 | | Soma Kanda | €24,125 | FW | 20 | 8 |
| 26 | | Taiyo Yamaguchi | €24,173 | FW | 20 | 2 |
| 27 | | Alexandre Kouto Horio Pisano | €24,201 | GK | 20 | 16 |
| 28 | | Takanari Endo | €25,172 | MF | 23 | 13 |
| 29 | | Ryoya Kimura | €25,180 | GK | 23 | 1 |
| 30 | | Shun Nakajima | €25,203 | MF | 24 | 5 |
| 31 | | Nobuteru Nakagawa | €25,217 | MF | 24 | 21 |
| 32 | | Koki Kumasaka | €25,219 | MF | 25 | 18 |
| 33 |  | Yoko Iesaka | €25,226 | MF | 23 | 0 |
| 34 | | Keisuke Tsukui | €25,231 | DF | 22 | 19 |
| 35 | | Homare Tokuda | €25,231 | FW | 19 | 9 |
| 36 | | Ryunosuke Ota | €25,235 | FW | 24 | 1 |
| 37 | | Ryunosuke Sato | €25,235 | MF | 19 | 28 |
| 38 | | Kaito Fujii | €25,240 | MF | 23 | 10 |
| 39 | | Masaki Endo | €25,240 | GK | 25 | 0 |
| 40 | | Naoya Komazawa | €25,240 | FW | 24 | 9 |
| 41 | | Koki Kumakura | €25,240 | MF | 24 | 5 |
| 42 | | Kohei Kawakami | €25,240 | GK | 25 | 0 |
| 43 | | Kengo Furuyama | €25,244 | FW | 24 | 7 |
| 44 | | Yu Hashimoto | €25,249 | DF | 24 | 25 |
| 45 | | Kakeru Yamauchi | €25,254 | MF | 24 | 10 |
| 46 | | Mitsuki Hidaka | €25,258 | MF | 23 | 3 |
| 47 | | Yui Inokoshi | €25,260 | GK | 25 | 0 |
| 48 | | Kodai Nagata | €25,263 | DF | 24 | 1 |
| 49 | | Kazuaki Suganuma | €25,263 | GK | 24 | 0 |
| 50 | | Souki Tamura | €25,267 | MF | 24 | 5 |
Which players gets paid the least in the J1 League?
These are players with the lowest salaries in the J1 League currently : Mihiro Sato is the lowest paid with an annual wage of €19,746, Yushin Otake is the 2nd lowest paid with €21,968, and Gakuto Kawamura is the 3rd worst with an annual salary of just €21,972.
Salary by Nationality of the Players
* This list includes data for nationalities where there are at least 3 players of the same nationality in this league.
| Nationality | Average Salary | Highest Paid Player | Players | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | €470,160 | Léo Ceará | 46 |
| 2 | Australia | €345,798 | Mitchell Duke | 3 |
| 3 | South Korea | €338,935 | Ju-sung Kim | 10 |
| 4 | Japan | €144,224 | Yūya Ōsako | 482 |
What nationality is paid the most in J1 League?
Currently, the players from Brazil tend to make the most money playing football in the J1 League. Their average annual income is €470,160.This is 36% higher than the second nationality (Australia) which is €345,798 per year.
Furthermore, players from Brazil gets paid 39% higher than the 3rd nationality (South Korea) which is €338,935 per year.
We can explain these differences by the number of players and the range of salary. For example, the average salary data for players from Japan is based on 482 players where the highest paid player is Yūya Ōsako with an annual pay of €1,288,740. That means that even though there are highly paid players from Japan, the sheer number of players can offset the average to a lower amount than expected.
Salary by Age
| Age | Average Salary | Highest Paid Player | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | €23,074 | Hikaru Maeda | 1 |
| 18 | €23,016 | Rui Araki | 2 |
| 19 | €23,467 | Aren Inoue | 8 |
| 20 | €35,447 | Masataka Kobayashi | 18 |
| 21 | €40,670 | Patrick Verhon Pertel Pereira | 12 |
| 22 | €47,495 | Kota Tawaratsumida | 13 |
| 23 | €46,675 | Akito Suzuki | 21 |
| 24 | €63,472 | Riku Handa | 42 |
| 25 | €120,495 | Ju-sung Kim | 38 |
| 26 | €120,587 | Rafael Elias da Silva | 42 |
| 27 | €163,740 | Matheus Soares Thuler | 47 |
| 28 | €166,213 | Yan Matheus Santos Souza | 43 |
| 29 | €230,818 | Jean Patrick Lima dos Reis | 57 |
| 30 | €208,886 | Rafael Ratão | 44 |
| 31 | €329,076 | Léo Ceará | 34 |
| 32 | €283,744 | Anderson Lopes | 34 |
| 33 | €228,405 | Thiago Santos Santana | 29 |
| 34 | €349,120 | Yoshinori Muto | 20 |
| 35 | €252,224 | Gotoku Sakai | 16 |
| 36 | €400,758 | Yūya Ōsako | 10 |
| 37 | €246,549 | Shinji Kagawa | 10 |
| 38 | €235,122 | Wellington Luís de Sousa | 6 |
| 39 | €423,977 | Yuto Nagatomo | 5 |
| 40 | €455,000 | Shusaku Nishikawa | 4 |
| 41 | €279,671 | Sung-Ryong Jung | 2 |
| 42 | €98,982 | Yuki Nakashima | 1 |
What is the average salary for younger players in the J1 League?
Currently, the average salary for players aged 18 to 23 in the J1 League is €39,966, with the highest paid young player being Masataka Kobayashi with a yearly salary of €233,495.
What is the average salary for players in their 20s in the J1 League?
Currently, the average salary for players aged 20 to 29 in the J1 League is €129,227, with the highest paid player in their 20s being Jean Patrick Lima dos Reis with a yearly salary of €878,560.
What is the average salary for players in their prime in the J1 League?
Currently, the average salary for players aged 25 to 32 in the J1 League is €268,097, with the highest paid prime aged player being Léo Ceará with a yearly wage of €1,288,740.
What is the average salary for players aged above 30 in the J1 League?
Currently, the average salary for players aged 30+ in the J1 League is €279,770, with the highest paid older player being Yūya Ōsako with an annual salary of €1,811,370.
Salaries - Japan
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