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A recent article on the sportingintelligence.com website includes what it claims is an official PFA document showing the average weekly wages of footballers in The Football League up to season 2009/10. Top-flight footballers wages are not included after the formation of the Premier League.
For season 2009/10, the report lists the average weekly wage in The Championship as £4059.00 whereas League 1 players received an average of £1410.00. League 2 players are said to have averaged £747.00 compared to £662.00 in season 2008/09.
Ten years previous in 1999/2000, the average League 2 wage was £486 and twenty years earlier in 89/90 it was just £240.
Interestingly, in the season The Bulls were in League 1 (08/09) players in that division averaged £1450. It is thought that HUFC players averaged considerably less.
It is also noticeable that wages in League 2 took an unexplained hike of some 40% from £578 to over £800 in 2003/04 before falling again the following season to just over £650. Why?
The full article can be seen at www.sportingintelligence.com/2011/10/30/english-football-wages-since-1984-85-301001/
