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How We Verify Salaries
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10.07.2025 4 days ago
How We Verify Salaries
How We Verify Salaries

At SalaryLeaks.com, our idea is to create database of salaries and known financial details of top athletes from major sports. However, in some sports official financial details of professional contracts are not disclosed. e.g European Football. So how do we verify salaries of footballers ? 

When/if we find salary details of a player on trusted and reputable source. Salary of that footballer is labeled as “verified”  and source is linked next to salary detail of that player. 

✅ What Counts as a Verified Source ?

Majority of the footballer salaries, specially in europe are not known. This is not public information and neither club or player disclose these details in public. However, agents exist and they do what needs to be done to get their client best possible contract. Most of the times, these agents leak salary information to reporters in order to get bigger contract or transfer for their client. This is how accurate estimates of player salaries are generated.

We only use two signals to verify players salary. 

  • 1. When we research each player's salary and contract details and if his salary numbers are quoted in one of the major newspapers (e.g., BBC Sport, The Guardian, The Athletic).
  • 2. There are number of reporters who have been marked as tier 1 category for transfer/contract news. For example Fabrizio Romano, David Ornstein to name a few. When tier 1 reporter quotes salary details we label it as verified and source is linked next to player salary.

When a salary is verified, we add a ✅ tick mark next to the player’s name. However, if we do not find any source for the salary we label it as estimate based on contract, age, league, club and similar profile players. 

📝 How We Estimate Salaries if not source is found ?

There are number of things taken into account before an estimate is generated for a player whose salary is not know. It can be comparable players at the same club and league (position, role, status) Transfer fee, age and contract length are also good indicators. 

Some clubs use certain wage structures (e.g., "academy graduates at top clubs in England have fixed salaries of around £500 per week"). Newcastle United have very strict wage structure and they do not offer salary beyond £150,000 per week not matter the player. Liverpool and Tottenham have similar salary ceilings unless you are Van Dijk or Salah.

Regular Database Updates:

We update salary and contract details of players who recently signed contract extension. When player transfer to another club. Player salary profile page is labeled with when was the last time it was updated/verified. 

If you see anything which is outdated or does not seem right. you can always tip us via our contract page.

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