Italian Serie A Salaries - 2015/16 Season

After a three year slump, the Serie A salaries are on the rise again. The Italian clubs are paying out a total of €882m in salaries in 2015/16, which is an increase by €33m compared to last season.

The record for gross salaries paid was set in 2011/12 when €1.1b was spent.

Here are the total Serie A gross salaries paid in the last nine seasons:


2007/08 - €829m
2008/09 - €915m
2009/10 - €969m
2010/11 - €1,000m
2011/12 - €1,100m
2012/13 - €1,040m
2013/14 - €912m
2014/15 - €849m
2015/16 - €882m

The total gross salaries paid by club in 2015/16 are:

€124m - Juventus
€113m - Roma
€101m - Milan
€94m - Inter
€74m - Napoli
€52m - Lazio
€46m - Fiorentina
€28m - Sampdoria
€27m - Sassuolo
€27m - Bologna
€26m - Genoa
€25m - Udinese
€25m - Atalanta
€24m - Torino
€24m - Palermo
€21m - Verona
€16m - Chievo
€14m - Empoli
€13m - Carpi
€8m - Frosinone

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The top Serie A player salaries in 2015/16 season are:

1. Daniele de Rossi, Roma - €6.5m
2. Gonzalo Higuain, Napoli - €3.2m
3. Paul Pogba, Juventus - €4,5m
3. Edin Dzeko, Roma - €4,5m
5. Gianluigi Buffon, Juventus - €4m
5. Sami Khedira, Juventus - €4m
7. Geoffrey Kondogbia, Inter Milan - €3.5m
7. Mario Mandzukic, Juventus - €3.5m
7. Giorgio Chiellini, Juventus - €3.5m
7. Carlos Bacca, AC Milan - €3.5m
7. Riccardo Montolivo, AC Milan - €3.5m
7. Mohamed Salah, Fiorentina - €3.5m
7. Claudio Marchisio, Juventus - €3.5m

Other notable player salaries:

Mauro Icardi - €3.2m
Francesco Totti - €3.2m
Mario Balotelli - €2.25m
Juan Cuadrado - €3m
Ashley Cole - €2.3m - (Cole is out of the first team this season but he decided to hang onto his salary for the last year of the contract.)


Top manager salaries in Serie A - 2015/16 season:

Roberto Mancini, Inter - €4m
Massimiliano Allegri, Juventus - €3.5m
Rudi Garcia, Roma - €2.8m
Sinisa Mihajlovic, Milan - €2m

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It is nice to see the Italian Serie A attracting top talent.

Inter Milan bumped up their salaries the most since last season - from €70m - €94m, while Fiorentina cut their salaries the most by €10m.

All teams combined spent in the area of €600m to bring in new players to the league during the 2015 summer transfer window.

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Will we see the return of AC Milan and Inter to the international stage next year?

It should be a great Calcio season!