The salary of hockey players of the KHL. Continental Hockey League

To begin with, we’ll stun readers with numbers, presenting the top 50 most paid Continental Hockey League hockey players for the past season (2017-2018). These figures are official, but do not take into account taxes, benefits and various payments. You understand that the data is confidential, and only fiscal authorities have the right to know them. Contract bonuses are also not taken into account: for goals scored, scoring a specific number of matches played, achievement of other conditions. Again, due to confidentiality. In general, looking into someone else's wallet is not good, but if you really want to, then you can.

The highest salaries of hockey players in the KHL

According to the rules of the League

It’s easy to calculate how much a hockey player’s salary is in the KHL per month. However, this is the elite. The average salary of a KHL hockey player is much less. In general, according to the KHL rules established by the League Council , the club does not have the right to appoint a salary without meeting the so-called salary ceiling. The club has a fixed approved budget for the salaries of its players, which it does not have the right to exceed. Until today, he was not the same for everyone. The leading clubs, in agreement with the Council, it was higher. Upon agreement, the club’s sports results, their popularity and TV rating were taken into account. In addition, outside the budgets, with the permission of the Council, you can conclude contracts with stars like Ilya Kovalchuk (pictured below), who popularize the entire KHL with their participation. Because the League is interested in such hockey players.

Optimization

However, starting next season, we should expect a reduction in the salaries of hockey players. But it will not be harsh. In the upcoming season, the club’s salary budget will be reduced by 50 million rubles to 850 million rubles. Under the current rule of stars. However, the limitation is "soft." Those who wish can bypass it by paying to the KHL stabilization fund a “luxury tax” of 20% of the excess amount.

How much do hockey players get

By the way, taking the figure of 850,000,000 as a basis, you can mathematically calculate the average salary of a KHL hockey player. In a team on contracts, usually about 30-40 hockey players. We divide 850,000,000, say, by 35. We get about 24.3 million rubles a year, that is, about 2 million a month.

For the common good

In the 2019-2020 season, the budget will be reduced to 800 million, but it will still be “soft” (although payment for “softness” will be tightened to 30% per search) and “star”.

From the 2020-2021 season, the budget will increase to 900 million rubles, but it will be “tough” for all, without exception, and those hockey players who are considered stars will not be able to withdraw from the budget.

A budget limit is made for the development of the League, for the even distribution of strong players among clubs that will align in strength, which means that matches with their participation will be held in a sharp struggle with an unpredictable outcome, which will increase spectator interest, and therefore, the attention of television and sponsors.

But what people think about the salaries of Russian hockey players in the KHL:

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The current state of affairs in the KHL, despite its success, is not brilliant. The richest clubs have a budget of up to eight times that of the poorest. This affects the quality of team composition, which leads to predictability of matches. Take a look at the table above the most earned league players: more than half (!) Of the Continental Hockey League clubs do not have their representatives. But almost completely he was hammered by the “army men" of Peter and Moscow. This is hardly good.

Fair play for money

Everything we talked about relates to open information. Although everyone knows that there is a “shadow economy” in clubs, in the form of undocumented income and expenses, which makes it difficult to assess the real financial situation in clubs and in the entire league. Therefore, the KHL leadership implements the league’s activities and insists on the principles of the financial Fair Play: business management must be in accordance with the law and be as open as possible. Such a Fair Play, without a doubt, will lead to a decrease (if not to its complete disappearance) of the unofficial part of the salaries of hockey players.

The KHL Council created the Committee for Monitoring the Financial Activities of Clubs, whose main task is not to fine and punish, but to help clubs function more efficiently and get useful information for the entire league.

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So if you think that junk and uncontrolled money are spinning in the KHL, then you are deeply mistaken. The salaries of hockey players in the KHL correspond to their skill level, and, by the way, are ten times lower than the salaries of NHL players . Moreover, in the near future, hockey salaries will be reduced. It is unlikely that this will affect the salaries of the "stars", but the average and minimum salaries are clearly subsiding.