Salary & Wage Data - Scotland Premiership

Nation

Scotland

Division

1st

Teams

Season

2025/26

Matches

216/228 Played

Progress

95% completed

Salaries - Premiership

€300,472

Average Annual Salary

297

Players With Salaries Recorded

€89,240,055

League Total Salary

Players with the highest salaries in the Premiership (Scotland)

#	Player	Annual Salary	Position	Age	Apps
1	Kieran Tierney	€2,963,999	DF	28	33
2	Mikey Moore	€2,608,320	MF	18	31
3	Nasser Yacouba Djiga	€2,433,600	DF	23	23
4	Max Aarons	€2,311,920	DF	26	19
5	Callum McGregor	€2,311,920	MF	32	35
6	Cameron Carter-Vickers	€2,193,360	DF	28	7
7	James Tavernier	€1,778,399	DF	34	34
8	Kelechi Iheanacho	€1,778,399	FW	29	11
9	Arne Engels	€1,659,839	MF	22	28
10	Jesper Karlsson	€1,600,559	FW	27	18
11	Danilo	€1,541,279	FW	27	14
12	Jack Butland	€1,481,999	GK	33	36
13	Joe Rothwell	€1,481,999	MF	31	8
14	Adil Aouchiche	€1,422,719	MF	23	20
15	Bojan Miovski	€1,363,439	FW	26	29
16	Rabbi Matondo	€1,363,439	FW	25	1
17	Dujon Sterling	€1,304,160	DF	26	13
18	Daizen Maeda	€1,244,880	FW	28	34
19	Youssef Chermiti	€1,244,880	FW	21	28
20	Djeidi Gassama	€1,185,600	FW	22	35
21	Alistair Johnston	€1,185,600	DF	27	5
22	James Forrest	€1,185,600	FW	34	25
23	Daniel Barlaser	€1,185,600	MF	29	33
24	Nicolas Raskin	€1,126,320	MF	25	33
25	Nedim Bajrami	€1,126,320	MF	27	12
26	Auston Trusty	€1,007,759	DF	27	24
27	Kieran Dowell	€948,479	MF	28	2
28	Reo Hatate	€948,479	MF	28	29
29	Anthony Ralston	€889,199	DF	27	23
30	Michel Ange Balikwisha	€889,199	FW	25	7
31	Connor Barron	€829,919	MF	23	25
32	Benjamin Nygren	€829,919	FW	24	35
33	Oliver Antman	€829,919	FW	24	15
34	Derek Cornelius	€829,919	DF	28	7
35	Kasper Schmeichel	€770,639	GK	39	26
36	Paulo Bernardo	€711,359	MF	24	8
37	Thelo Aasgaard	€711,359	MF	24	31
38	Mohammed Diomande	€652,080	MF	24	29
39	Stephen Welsh	€509,807	DF	26	27
40	Alfie Dorrington	€503,879	DF	21	6
41	John Souttar	€480,167	DF	29	23
42	Shin Yamada	€474,239	MF	25	8
43	Sebastian Tounekti	€474,239	FW	23	25
44	Ross Doohan	€456,455	GK	28	0
45	Eduardo Ageu Almeida Santos	€455,520	FW	24	7
46	Marcelo Josemir Saracchi Pintos	€430,560	DF	28	17
47	Jahmai Simpson-Pusey	€420,887	DF	20	1
48	Liam Kelly	€414,959	GK	30	0
49	Liam Scales	€414,959	DF	27	35
50	Lawrence Shankland	€414,959	FW	30	27

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Who is the highest paid player in the Premiership?

Currently, the highest paid footballer in Premiership is Kieran Tierney who plays for Celtic with an annual salary of €2,963,999 per season. The second highest is Mikey Moore with €2,608,320 per season, and the third highest paid footballer is Nasser Yacouba Djiga with €2,433,600 per season.

Annual Salaries by Teams in the Premiership (Club Wage Bills)

* This table includes data for known salaries only

Team

Average Salary

Total Payroll

Players

Rangers FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 6 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	W W L L L	1.92
Home	W D W W L	2.11
Away	D W W L L	1.72

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	53%	61%	44%
AVG	3.03	3.17	2.89
Scored	1.94	2.11	1.78
Conceded	1.08	1.06	1.11
BTTS	64%	61%	67%
CS	33%	33%	33%

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€1,199,067

€28,777,617

Celtic FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 1 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	W W W W W	2.11
Home	L W W W W	2.39
Away	D W L W W	1.83

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	67%	78%	56%
AVG	2.92	3.00	2.83
Scored	1.86	2.22	1.50
Conceded	1.06	0.78	1.33
BTTS	56%	50%	61%
CS	36%	50%	22%

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€869,619

€25,218,942

Aberdeen FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 1 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	L W W D W	1.11
Home	L D W W W	1.44
Away	D L L L D	0.78

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	31%	39%	22%
AVG	2.44	2.72	2.17
Scored	1.06	1.56	0.56
Conceded	1.39	1.17	1.61
BTTS	36%	50%	22%
CS	28%	33%	22%

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€308,209

€7,705,229

Hibernian FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 4 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	W L L L W	1.50
Home	W D W L L	1.67
Away	W D D L W	1.33

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	39%	44%	33%
AVG	2.72	2.78	2.67
Scored	1.56	1.78	1.33
Conceded	1.17	1.00	1.33
BTTS	53%	50%	56%
CS	31%	44%	17%

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€236,079

€5,665,906

Dundee United FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 5 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	L W W L L	1.19
Home	D W W W W	1.50
Away	L D L L L	0.89

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	28%	39%	17%
AVG	2.97	2.56	3.39
Scored	1.33	1.33	1.33
Conceded	1.64	1.22	2.06
BTTS	56%	50%	61%
CS	17%	28%	6%

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€200,400

€4,008,000

Heart of Midlothian FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 2 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	D W W W D	2.14
Home	W W W W W	2.56
Away	L L D W D	1.72

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	64%	78%	50%
AVG	2.61	2.50	2.72
Scored	1.75	1.89	1.61
Conceded	0.86	0.61	1.11
BTTS	47%	44%	50%
CS	44%	56%	33%

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€190,050

€5,131,357

Dundee FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 3 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	L D L W W	1.08
Home	W D L W W	1.56
Away	L W L D L	0.61

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	28%	44%	11%
AVG	2.61	3.00	2.22
Scored	1.06	1.56	0.56
Conceded	1.56	1.44	1.67
BTTS	44%	61%	28%
CS	19%	22%	17%

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€128,674

€2,959,506

Motherwell FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 3 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	L L W L D	1.61
Home	W W D L D	2.00
Away	L L L W L	1.22

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	42%	56%	28%
AVG	2.47	2.22	2.72
Scored	1.56	1.67	1.44
Conceded	0.92	0.56	1.28
BTTS	47%	33%	61%
CS	47%	67%	28%

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€96,610

€2,705,091

Saint Mirren FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 6 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	W L L L L	0.83
Home	L L W L L	1.11
Away	D L W L L	0.56

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	19%	28%	11%
AVG	2.25	1.72	2.78
Scored	0.75	0.56	0.94
Conceded	1.50	1.17	1.83
BTTS	36%	11%	61%
CS	22%	44%	0%

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€90,031

€2,160,741

Kilmarnock FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 2 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	L D L W W	0.94
Home	L W W D W	1.22
Away	D L L L W	0.67

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	22%	33%	11%
AVG	3.03	2.89	3.17
Scored	1.19	1.39	1.00
Conceded	1.83	1.50	2.17
BTTS	53%	44%	61%
CS	25%	33%	17%

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€87,216

€2,354,837

Livingston FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 4 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	D L W D L	0.56
Home	L D D D D	0.65
Away	D L L W L	0.47

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	6%	6%	5%
AVG	3.06	3.24	2.89
Scored	1.08	1.35	0.84
Conceded	1.97	1.88	2.05
BTTS	67%	88%	47%
CS	8%	0%	16%

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€72,918

€1,750,029

Falkirk FC

Premiership (Div. 1)

League Pos. 5 / 12

Scotland

Form	Last 5	PPG
Overall	W L L W L	1.36
Home	W L L W L	1.37
Away	W L D W L	1.35

Statistics	Overall	Home	Away
Win %	39%	37%	41%
AVG	2.83	3.16	2.47
Scored	1.33	1.63	1.00
Conceded	1.50	1.53	1.47
BTTS	53%	68%	35%
CS	25%	21%	29%

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€36,491

€802,800

Which team has the highest payroll in the Premiership?

Currently, the football team with the highest payroll in Premiership is Rangers with an annual total payroll of €28,777,617. This represents an average of €1,199,067 of annual salary per player. This is 12% higher than Celtic who is the team with the 2nd highest payroll in Premiership and 73% higher than Aberdeen who is the team with the third highest payroll in Premiership.

Players with the Lowest Salaries in the Premiership

* 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	Luke Douglas	€1,872	FW	16	1
2	Grant Tamosevicius	€5,927	GK	N/A	0
3	Jay Gillies	€8,736	MF	18	0
4	Aaron Thomson	€8,736	MF	17	0
5	Ethan Crombie	€9,360	MF	17	0
6	Archie James Traynor	€12,480	MF	17	0
7	Rocco McColm	€14,352	MF	17	1
8	Rhys Walker	€14,400	MF	N/A	0
9	Aaron Davis	€14,819	GK	23	0
10	Campbell Forrest	€15,600	MF	N/A	0
11	Nicky Hogarth	€18,000	GK	24	5
12	Connor Allan	€18,000	MF	25	23
13	Finn Yeats	€24,000	MF	22	18
14	Barney Stewart	€24,000	MF	N/A	17
15	Leon McCann	€26,400	DF	26	26
16	Cesar Garza Cantu	€26,832	MF	20	2
17	Evan Myles	€27,268	MF	17	0
18	Brian Graham	€27,600	FW	38	24
19	Eddie Beech	€29,639	GK	N/A	3
20	Keelan Adams	€30,000	DF	24	23
21	Liam Henderson	€30,000	DF	29	32
22	Scott Bain	€30,000	GK	34	32
23	Thomas Lang	€30,000	DF	28	0
24	Zander McAllister	€32,011	MF	18	2
25	Ben Brannan	€34,975	MF	N/A	17
26	Scott Pittman	€35,568	MF	33	34
27	Stevie May	€35,568	FW	33	32
28	Tummise Sobowale	€35,568	DF	27	6
29	Tómas Bent Magnússon	€35,568	MF	23	27
30	Tete Yengi	€35,568	FW	25	19
31	Scott Tiffoney	€35,568	FW	27	12
32	Brad Spencer	€36,000	MF	29	36
33	Sean Mackie	€36,000	DF	27	1
34	Coll Donaldson	€36,000	DF	31	9
35	Tawanda Jethro Maswanhise	€37,440	FW	23	33
36	Tony Yogane	€37,440	MF	N/A	34
37	Sabah Kerjota	€37,440	MF	24	17
38	Luca Ross	€37,939	FW	19	9
39	Ethan Brown	€41,184	MF	20	17
40	Ryan McGowan	€41,496	DF	36	23
41	Ryan Mullen	€41,496	GK	24	2
42	Dylan Tait	€42,000	MF	24	36
43	Gary Oliver	€42,000	MF	30	4
44	Rudi Allan Molotnikov	€43,680	MF	19	3
45	Lewis Smith	€43,867	MF	26	33
46	Ethan Ross	€44,400	MF	24	27
47	Evan Mooney	€45,052	MF	N/A	11
48	Shane Blaney	€45,645	DF	27	5
49	Dylan Lobban	€45,645	MF	20	13
50	Samson Adeniran Lawal	€46,176	MF	22	15

Which players gets paid the least in the Premiership?

These are players with the lowest salaries in the Premiership currently : Luke Douglas is the lowest paid with an annual wage of €1,872, Grant Tamosevicius is the 2nd lowest paid with €5,927, and Jay Gillies is the 3rd worst with an annual salary of just €8,736.

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	USA	€831,324	Cameron Carter-Vickers	4
2	Belgium	€818,063	Arne Engels	5
3	Portugal	€722,800	Youssef Chermiti	3
4	Japan	€699,503	Daizen Maeda	4
5	Nigeria	€649,687	Kelechi Iheanacho	3
6	Sweden	€572,207	Jesper Karlsson	5
7	Canada	€559,140	Alistair Johnston	4
8	France	€478,741	Adil Aouchiche	7
9	Denmark	€400,280	Kasper Schmeichel	3
10	England	€383,625	Mikey Moore	52
11	Wales	€337,628	Rabbi Matondo	7
12	Finland	€328,301	Oliver Antman	4
13	Norway	€317,865	Thelo Aasgaard	5
14	Croatia	€221,480	Ante Palaversa	3
15	Scotland	€187,330	Kieran Tierney	113
16	Australia	€148,248	Cameron Devlin	13
17	Republic of Ireland	€145,120	Liam Scales	14
18	Germany	€140,295	Emmanuel Gyamfi	3
19	Northern Ireland	€123,853	Aaron Donnelly	6
20	Netherlands	€107,889	Mats Knoester	4

What nationality is paid the most in Premiership?

Currently, the players from USA tend to make the most money playing football in the Premiership. Their average annual income is €831,324.This is 2% higher than the second nationality (Belgium) which is €818,063 per year.
Furthermore, players from USA gets paid 15% higher than the 3rd nationality (Portugal) which is €722,800 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 Scotland is based on 113 players where the highest paid player is Kieran Tierney with an annual pay of €2,193,360. That means that even though there are highly paid players from Scotland, 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
16	€1,872	Luke Douglas	1
17	€14,439	Evan Myles	5
18	€883,022	Mikey Moore	3
19	€74,284	James Wilson	5
20	€119,251	Jahmai Simpson-Pusey	6
21	€521,664	Youssef Chermiti	4
22	€342,687	Arne Engels	11
23	€393,454	Nasser Yacouba Djiga	21
24	€232,882	Benjamin Nygren	31
25	€294,520	Rabbi Matondo	22
26	€353,334	Max Aarons	23
27	€397,973	Jesper Karlsson	28
28	€526,646	Kieran Tierney	23
29	€301,705	Kelechi Iheanacho	19
30	€165,872	Liam Kelly	21
31	€267,431	Joe Rothwell	9
32	€345,568	Callum McGregor	10
33	€300,845	Jack Butland	8
34	€426,072	James Tavernier	10
35	€116,791	David Junior Hoilett	3
36	€67,184	Andrew Shinnie	3
37	€141,800	Beni Baningime	3
38	€27,600	Brian Graham	1
39	€770,639	Kasper Schmeichel	1
43	€260,831	Craig Gordon	1

What is the average salary for younger players in the Premiership?

Currently, the average salary for players aged 18 to 23 in the Premiership is €357,095, with the highest paid young player being Mikey Moore with a yearly salary of €2,608,320.

What is the average salary for players in their 20s in the Premiership?

Currently, the average salary for players aged 20 to 29 in the Premiership is €349,193, with the highest paid player in their 20s being Kieran Tierney with a yearly salary of €2,963,999.

What is the average salary for players in their prime in the Premiership?

Currently, the average salary for players aged 25 to 32 in the Premiership is €233,647, with the highest paid prime aged player being Callum McGregor with a yearly wage of €2,311,920.

What is the average salary for players aged above 30 in the Premiership?

Currently, the average salary for players aged 30+ in the Premiership is €257,854, with the highest paid older player being Callum McGregor with an annual salary of €2,311,920.